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Returning Sails at Goten-yama (Goten-yama kihan), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei) on paper snack bags


極製御菓子 「江戸八景 御殿山 帰帆」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833 (Tenpô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 11.3 x 15.9 cm (4 7/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1768
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hokusai Updated (2019), #358 (entire series); Lane, Hokusai Life and Work (1989), list #153, fig. 106 (entire series); the series: Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 223, mameban/wrappers #4 (this design not listed)
DescriptionThe MFA has four prints from the series. 21.10234 is the entire front side of what was once a paper bag for snacks corresponding to cookies or crackers; the top of the bag was apparently folded twice and secured with a string through the small holes that can still be seen. Three other prints in the series have been cut completely out of the original bag, leaving only the landscape picture: 06.383, 06.1768, and 06.2524.3 .
Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu ga
前北斎為一画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross