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(E-iri) Wakan inshitsuden


(絵入)和漢陰隲伝
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author: Fujii Ransai (Japanese)
Publisher: Nishinomiya Yahei (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamashiroya Sahei
Publisher: Kobayashi Shinbei (Japanese)
Publisher: Hanabusa Daisuke (Japanese)
Publisher: Okadaya Kashichi (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Ihachi (Seireikaku) (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Sasuke (Kinkadô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Mohei (Senshôbô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawachiya Kihei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
colophon: 1840 (Tenpo 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 23.8 x 17.0 cm; hanshibon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2011.1152
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 8 (1990), p. 229; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 252; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 263
Signed front endpaper (artist): saki no Hokusai aratame gakyô rôjin Manji hitsu
見返し:前北斎改画狂老人卍筆
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: September 9, 2011)