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Banana Garden at Nakashima (Nakashima shōen), from the series Eight Views of the Ryūkyū Islands (Ryūkyū hakkei)


「琉球八景 中島蕉園」
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; 25.4 x 36.9 cm (10 x 14 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.6704
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Seifman, "Islands ...," Andon 106 (2018), fig. 2a; Hokusai Updated (2019), #354; Ukiyo-e shūka 16 (1981), p. 229, horizontal ōban #21.8
DescriptionMFA impressions: *06.804 (deaccessioned in 2019), 15.173, 21.6704
Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
ProvenancePurchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from W. L. Keane collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.