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

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

東海道五十三次　「原」

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); 12.6 x 36.1 cm (4 15/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.10284

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 225, horizontal koban #3.15

DescriptionStation 14, 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.