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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: 25.6 x 17.8 cm (10 1/16 x 7 in.); ôbon
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number2019.913
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
Provenance2019, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession date: October 7, 2019)