Matsuri no Wataru, from the book Isuzugawa kyôka-guruma, fûryû gojûnin isshu (A Wagonload of Comic Poems from the Isuzu River, by Fifty Fashionable Poets)

五十鈴川狂歌車風流五拾人一首　「祭和樽」

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

Japanese

Edo period

1802 (Kyôwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions One page; 20.5 x 15.3 cm (8 1/16 x 6 in.)

Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich

Accession Number49.638

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné On the book: Hillier, The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration (1980), pp. 65-67, figs. 47-48

Signed HOkusai ga

Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)