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絵本和漢誉
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Ehon wakan no homare (The Glories of Japan and China)
絵本和漢誉
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Yamazaki Yoshishige (Japanese)
Publisher: Kamiya Tokuhachi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Egawa Sentarô (Japanese)
Author of preface: Yamazaki Yoshishige (Japanese)
Publisher: Kamiya Tokuhachi (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Egawa Sentarô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
preface and colophon: 1850 (Kaei 3)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 23.2 x 16 cm (9 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2019.926
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Catalogue Raisonné
Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 504; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 268; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 263; Forrer (1982) 104
Signed
artist signatures: Saki no Hokusai Gakyôrôjin Manji hitsu (title page); Gakyôrôjin Manji hitsu (colophon)
前北斎画狂老人卍筆
前北斎画狂老人卍筆
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)