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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)
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
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
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)