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Crossing a Bridge, from the album Men's Stamping Dance (Otoko tôka)


男踏歌 橋
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1798 (Kansei 10)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 21.4 x 36.4 cm (8 7/16 x 14 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.809
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1989), list no. 73, pl. 18; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 3, British Museum III (1987), fig. 157; the book: Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #481 (this design described, but no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.809, *11.39638 (deaccessioned in 2012)

From an album of 16 leaves, a kyôka anthology with six illustrations by Tôrin, Utamaro, Shigemasa, Ekishi, Eishi, and Hokusai.
The complete book: 2011.794
Signed Hokusai Sôri ga
北斎宗理画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross