Ehon saishiki tsû, nihen shôhen (The Knowledge of Color, Parts One and Two; variation with volumes bound in partially reversed order)

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Ehon saishiki tsû, nihen shôhen (The Knowledge of Color, Parts One and Two; variation with volumes bound in partially reversed order)

画本彩色通二編　初編　（バリアシオン）

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Hôkaishi (Japanese)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Tôbei (Kinkôdô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Kobayashi Shinbei (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

title page and colophon: 1848 (Kôka 5/Kaei 1); preface of volume 2: 1847 (Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper

Dimensions Overall: 18 x 12.5 cm (7 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.); chûbon

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse

Accession Number2019.915

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 494; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 263; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 265

Signed artist signature:Gakyô Rôjin Manji hitsu
画狂老人卍筆

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)