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(Denshin kaishu) Hokusai dôchû gafu (Hokusai's Picture Album of the Tokaido Road)


(伝神開手)北斎道中画譜
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Author of preface: Takai Ranzan (Japanese)
Publisher: Katano Tôshirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Meiji era
after 1881

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 15.8 cm (6 1/4 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.575
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)