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Santai gafu (Three Styles of Drawing)


(Denshin kaishu) Santai gafu
三体画譜
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Minoya Iroku (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1815

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Chubon
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number1997.903
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 193
ProvenanceBy 1918, Henry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; gift of the Estate of Henry Adams to the MFA [see note]. (Accession date: July 31, 1998)

NOTE:
The Museum's object ledger lists this book as a gift of the Estate of Henry Adams, but does not include the date. Possibly given on January 22, 1920 with other objects donated by the Estate on that date.