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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Chiryû, from an untitled series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road


東海道五十三次 「池鯉鮒」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal kokonotsugiri (one-ninth ôban); 11.1 x 16.2 cm (4 3/8 x 6 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1782
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 225, horizontal koban #3.45
DescriptionStation 40, from a later edition without poems.
For an almost-complete set of this edition, bound as an album, see 1997.683 .
MFA impressions: *06.1782 (deaccessioned in 2019), 11.20382, 21.10326, 34.303
Signed Gakyôjin Hokusai ga
画狂人北斎画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross