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(Denshin kaishu) Hokusai gashiki (Hokusai's Drawing Method)


「伝神開手」北斎画式
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Kageyama Shoshi
Publisher: Izumiya Rihei
Japanese
Edo period
Preface: 1818 summer; colophon: 4/1819

Medium/Technique Woobblock printed book; ink on paper
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number1997.780
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 204
Signed Artist signature: Tôto gakô saki no Hokusai sensei Katsushika Taito hitsu
Marks Seal: Yoshinoyama
Inscriptions5 more publishers indicated.
Blockcutter: Yamazaki Shokuro, Osaka.
Copyists: Senkakutei Hokuyo, Sekkatei Hokushu, Shunyosai Hokkei, Osaka.
ProvenanceDecember 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the library of the Museum. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)