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Finest Confectionary (Gokusei okashi): Descending Geese at the Sumida River (Sumida rakugan), from the series Eight Views of Edo (Edo hakkei) on paper snack bags


「極製御菓子」 「江戸八景 隅田 落雁」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Akamatsuya Shôtarô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1833 (Tenpô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 30.5 x 20.1 cm (12 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.10234
NOT ON VIEW
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 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
ProvenanceSpring 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.