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Denshin kaishu Hokusai zukô shôhen (Hokusai's Pictorial Considerations, Part One)


(伝神開手) 北斎画式初編
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Author of preface: Akitsu (Japanese)
Publisher: Eirakuya Tôshirô (Tôhekidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
undated

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 22.8 x 15.8 cm (9 x 6 1/4 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number2019.930
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Forrer (1985) p. 182
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; By 1926, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 7, 2019)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.