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Ehon toshisen gogon-ritsu hairitsu
唐詩選画本五言律
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Tôshisen ehon gogon-ritsu (The Illustrated Tang Poems of Eight Five-word Lines)
Ehon toshisen gogon-ritsu hairitsu
唐詩選画本五言律
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author: Takai Ranzan (Japanese)
Publisher: Kobayashi Shinbei (Japanese)
Author: Takai Ranzan (Japanese)
Publisher: Kobayashi Shinbei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1833
Medium/Technique
Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions
Chubon
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.914.1-5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Catalogue Raisonné
Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 6 (1990), pp. 49-50; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 238; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 26; Forrer (1982) 96
Signed
Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆
前北斎為一筆
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)