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Mariko, from an untitled series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road


東海道五十三次 「鞠子」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Double-width horizontal kokonotsugiri (one-ninth ôban); 13.8 x 37 cm (5 7/16 x 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.10277
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hokusai Updated (2019), #114; Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 225, horizontal koban #3.22; Rijksmuseum cat. III, Hokusai and His School (1982), #13
DescriptionStation 21, from a later edition without poems. Still later, a single-width design by Yanagawa Shigenobu was substituted for this one.
For an almost-complete set of this edition, bound as an album, see 1997.683 .
Signed Gakyôjin Hokusai ga
画狂人北斎画
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.