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Gasoku (Principles of Painting)


Hashira: Wakan gasoku
画則
Sakurai Shûzan Keigetsu (1770s)
Author: Sakurai Shûzan Keigetsu (1770s)
Author of preface: Kiyokawa Anyû
Author of preface: Kanegai Junkyô (Japanese)
Author of postface: Inagaki Chôshô (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Ihachi (Seireikaku) (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Mohei (Senshôbô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kashiwabaraya Yozaemon (Japanese)
Publisher: Ônogi Ichibei (Japanese)
Publisher: Akitaya Heizaemon (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
colophon: 1776 (An'ei 5); 1st preface: 1773 (An'ei 2); 2nd preface and postface: 1774 (An'ei 3)

Medium/Technique woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 26.5 x 18 cm (10 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.); ôhon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.765.1-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

InscriptionsOther artists also indicated.
Other authors: Kanegai Junkyo (preface), Inagaki Chosho (postface).
Publishers: Suharaya Ihei and 4 others, Edo.
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)