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(Denshin kaishu) Ippitsu gafu (An Album of One Stroke Drawings)


一筆画譜
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Shinrinshi (Japanese)
Publisher: Eirakuya Tôshirô (Tôhekidô) (Japanese)
Copyist: Hokutei Bokusen (Japanese)
Copyist: Tonansai Hokuun (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1823 (Bunsei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and limited color on paper
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.887
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 214
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)