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(Denshin kaishu) Hokusai gashiki (Hokusai's Drawing Method)


(傳神開手)北斎画式
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author: Kageyama Shoshi
Publisher: Izumiya Rihei
Copyist: Senkakutei Hokuyô (Japanese)
Copyist: Sekkatei Hokushû (Japanese)
Copyist: Shun'yôsai Hokkei (Japanese, active 1818–1824)
Japanese
Edo period
preface: 1818 (Bunsei 1) summer; colophon: 1819 (Bunsei 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and slight color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 26.1 x 18.5 cm (10 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.); ôbon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2019.912
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 7 (1990), p. 306; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 204; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 283; Forrer (1985) pp. 189-90
Signed artist signature: Tôto gakô saki no Hokusai sensei Katsushika Taito hitsu
東都画工先北斎先生葛飾戴斗筆
Marks seal: Yoshinoyama
よしのやま
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)