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東海道五十三次 「草津」
Kusatsu, from an untitled series of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road
東海道五十三次 「草津」
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
Horizontal kokonotsugiri (one-ninth ôban); 13.1 x 18.1 cm (5 3/16 x 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.299
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 225, horizontal koban #3.58
DescriptionStation 53, from a later edition without poems.
For an almost-complete set of this edition, bound as an album, see 1997.683 .
MFA impressions: First edition, with kyôka poems: 21.10289
Later edition: 11.20377, 21.10339, 34.299
For an almost-complete set of this edition, bound as an album, see 1997.683 .
MFA impressions: First edition, with kyôka poems: 21.10289
Later edition: 11.20377, 21.10339, 34.299
Signed
Gakyôjin Hokusai ga
画狂人北斎画
画狂人北斎画
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)