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(Wakan meihitsu) gaei (Glories of Japanese and Chinese Painting)


(和漢名筆) 画英
Yoshimura Shûzan (Japanese)
Author of preface: Yoshimura Shûzan (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Tanba Heizaemon (Japanese)
Publisher: Akitaya Taemon (Sôeidô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Mohei (Senshôbô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
colophon: 1807 (Bunka 4); preface: 1749 (Kanen 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 25.3 x 18.4 cm (9 15/16 x 7 1/4 in.); ôhon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2009.3946.1-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 325
Signed artist/author (preface): Hôgan Shûzan Genkyô sho
序:法眼周山玄興書
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: August 25, 2009)