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Shûga hyakunin isshu (One Hundred Eminent Poets)


秀雅百人一首
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797–1861)
Yanagawa Shigenobu II (Japanese, active about 1830–60)
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Author of preface and text: Ryokutei Senryû (Japanese)
Author of preface: Sekiguchi Akizane (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
preface: 1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper (slight color on title page and first fives sheets)
Dimensions Overall: 18.1 x 11.8 cm (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.); chûbon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2019.904
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 4 (1990), p. 240; Hillier (1980) 264; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 265
Signed artist signature: Saki no Hokusai Manji Rôjin
前北斎卍老人
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)