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The Sacred Fountain at Castle Peak (Jōgaku reisen), from the series Eight Views of the Ryūkyū Islands (Ryūkyū hakkei)


「琉球八景 城獄霊泉」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1832 (Tenpō 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ōban; 25.7 x 38 cm (10 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.806
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Seifman, "Islands ...," Andon 106 (2018), fig. 8a; Hokusai Updated (2019), #352; Ukiyo-e shūka 16 (1981), p. 229, horizontal ōban #21.7
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.806, 21.6708
Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross