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Shingata komonchô (New Textile Patterns)


新形小紋牒
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Ryûtei Tanehiko (Japanese, 1783–1842)
Publisher: Osakaya Shohachi (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
preface: 1824 (Bunsei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions Overall: 17.8 x 12 cm (7 x 4 3/4 in.); chûbon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2019.947
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 217; Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 4 (1990), p. 637
Signed artist signature: Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前ほくさい為一翁筆
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)