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極製御菓子 「江戸八景 不忍 秋月」
Autumn Moon at Shinobazu Pond (Shinobazu shûgetsu), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei) on paper snack bags
極製御菓子 「江戸八景 不忍 秋月」
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 15.7 cm (4 7/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.383
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
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
前北斎為一画
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross