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Ehon chûkyô (Illustrated Classic of Loyalty)


絵本忠経
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface and text: Takai Ranzan (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Ihachi (Seireikaku) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Sugita Kinsuke (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
preface and colophon: 1834 (Tenpô 5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper (with printed colors on frontispiece)
Dimensions Overall: 22.7 x 16 cm (8 15/16 x 6 5/16 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number2019.928
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 497; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 240; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 261
Signed Artist: Katsushika saki no Hokusai Iitsu rôjin ga
葛飾前北斎為一老人画
Provenance2019, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession date: October 7, 2019)