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Gift cover (fukusa)
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1844 (Koka 1)
Object Place: Japan
Medium/Technique
Silk plain weave with ink and color
Dimensions
66.6 x 71.6 cm (26 1/4 x 28 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number22.398
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
Catalogue Raisonné
Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 64
DescriptionWhite silk crepe gift cover (fukusa), hand painted with ink and color. Circular medallion in center with mythological Chinese lion (karashishi) surrounded by polychrome peony border. Signed by artist, Katsushika Hokusai, at the age of 85.
Signed
Gakyô rôjin Manji hitsu, yowai hachijûgosai
(Brush of Manji, the Old Man MAd about Painting, aged eighty-five)
(Brush of Manji, the Old Man MAd about Painting, aged eighty-five)
Marks
Katsushika (?)
ProvenanceGift of William Sturgis Bigelow of Boston, Massachusetts to MFA, April 6, 1922