A Good Time to Start a Project (Mono tachi yoshi), from the series Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)

「花園番続　ものたちよし」

Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1824 (Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, gold, and silver on paper

Dimensions Shikishiban; 20.9 x 18.3 cm (8 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line General Funds

Accession Number00.1894

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer, Surimono (2013), #307; Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #160

Signed Hokkei
北渓

ProvenanceJanuary 1900, purchased at the Brinkley-Condor Sale by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 9, 1900)