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Ehon senjimon (The Illustrated Thousand Word Classic)


画本千字文
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Murakami Shôdô (Japanese, 1776–1841)
Author of preface: Masu Minsai (Japanese)
Publisher: Tennôjiya Ichirôbei (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Okada Mohei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
colophon: 1835 (Tenpô 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 22.6 x 15.4 cm (8 7/8 x 6 1/16 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2019.925
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 495; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 243; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 264
Signed artist signatures: Katsushika saki no Hokusai Iitsu ga; Shôdo
葛飾前北斎為一画
松堂
Marks seal: Shikô
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)