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Sanshichi zenden nanka no yume (Life is a Dream: The Story of Sankatsu and Hanshichi)


三七全伝南柯夢
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author: Kyokutei Bakin (Japanese, 1767–1848)
Publisher: Suharaya Ihachi (Seireikaku) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawachiya Mohei (Gungyokudô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawachiya Tôbei (Japanese)
Publisher: Okadaya Kashichi (Japanese)
Publisher: Chôjiya Heibei (Bunkeidô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Hanabusaya Bunzô
Publisher: Hanabusa Daisuke (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamashiroya Masakichi (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Shinbei (Kobayashi Shinbei, Sûzanbô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamashiroya Sahei
Publisher: Suharaya Mohei (Senshôbô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kawachiya Tôshirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
colophons: 1809–11

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 22.6 x 15.8 cm; hanshibon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2011.1173.1-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 145
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)