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Hokusai manga sôhitsu no bu (Hokusai's Sketchbook: Cursive Drawings)


北斎漫画草筆の部
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Nagao Kageyoshi (Japanese)
Publisher: Wan'ya Kihei (Japanese (Tokyo))
Blockcutter: Suzuki Eijirô (Japanese, active 1830s--40s)
Japanese
Edo period
1832, 1843

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 22.5 x 15.5 cm (8 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number1997.879
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; By 1926, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.