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Kidoku hyakkasen shôhen (One Hundred Commendable Poems, Part One)


奇特百歌僊
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Author: Ryokutei Senryû (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
preface dated 1851

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 18.3 x 12.1 cm (7 3/16 x 4 3/4 in.); chûbon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.501
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 2 (1989), p. 44
Signed Ichiryûsai Hiroshige egaku
一立斎廣重圖
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)