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Retsujo hyakunin isshu (Verses by One Hundred Famous Women)


列女百人一首
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Author of preface and text: Ryokutei Senryû (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
preface: 1847 (Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper (limited color on title page only)
Dimensions Overall: 18.2 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 Number2019.903
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 8 (1990), p. 145; Hillier (1980) 261
Signed artist signatures: "Katsushika Manji Rôjin ga"; "Ichiyôsai Toyokuni ga"
葛飾卍老人畫
一陽斎豊國画
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; 1953, gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 7, 2019)