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Shingata komonchô (New Textile Patterns)


Komoncho
新形小紋帳
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author: Ryûtei Tanehiko (Japanese, 1783–1842)
Publisher: Osakaya Shohachi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1824 (Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 18.5 x 12.9 cm (7 5/16 x 5 1/16 in.); chûbon
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number1997.908
OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 217; Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 4 (1990), p. 637
Marks Two red seals on first page of preface, possibly Koume and Babcock
ProvenanceProbably by 1903, part of the library of the department of the Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts; 1997, catalogued by the MFA; 1998, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)