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Hokusai shashin gafu (Hokusai's Album of Pictures from Nature)


北斎写真画譜
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Taira no Yuzuru (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1814

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 25.8 x 17.1 cm (10 3/16 x 6 3/4 in.); ôhon; orihon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.882
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Hokusai (2013), #135; Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 7 (1990), p. 307; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 185
Signed No artist signature
ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession date: July 31, 1998)