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Paper for a Folded Calligraphy Copybook: Under Mannen Bridge (Mannen-bashi shita)


絵入折手本 「万年橋下」 (北斎の富岳三十六景に基いた)
Artist unknown, Japanese
After: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions 17.8 x 36.2 cm (7 x 14 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of L. Aaron Lebowich
Accession Number49.647
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom a series based on selected designs from Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji," for use as folded calligraphy copybooks (eiri ori tehon). The MFA has 8 prints (49.640 to 49.647) from what was apparently a set of 12; a complete (?) set is in the Irie Collection at the Hyôgo Prefectural History Museum.
Compare the Hokusai print of the same title: 11.17650, 11.17651, 21.6753
Signed Unsigned
無款
Provenance1949, gift of Louis Aaron Lebowich (b. 1880), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession date: September 15, 1949)