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(Denshin kaishu) Hokusai manga sanpen (Hokusai Sketchbooks, vol. 3)


(傳神開手)北斎漫画三編
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Ôta Nanpo (Japanese, 1749–1823)
Publisher: Kadomaruya Jinsuke (Shûseikaku) (Japanese)
Copyist: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Copyist: Toenrô Hokusen (Japanese, active 1815-19)
Copyist: Gekkotei Bokusen (Japanese)
Copyist: Tonansai Hokuun (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
colophon: 1815 (Bunka 12) summer

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book: ink and slight color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 23 x 16 cm (9 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2019.910
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 7 (1990), p. 307; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 186; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 254; Forrer p. 223
Signed Tôto gakô Hokusai aratame Katsushika Taito
東都画工北斎改葛飾戴斗
Marks seal: Yoshinoyama
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)