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(Denshin kaishu) Hokusai manga sanpen (Hokusai Sketchbooks, vol. 3)


(伝神開手) 北斎漫画 三編
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Ôta Nanpo (Japanese, 1749–1823)
Japanese
Edo period
undated

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 22.2 x 15.2 cm (8 3/4 x 6 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Henry Adams
Accession Number2019.971
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 7 (1990), p. 307; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 186; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 254, Forrer 3.B
Signed no artist signature
ProvenanceBy 1918, Henry Brooks Adams (b. 1838 - d. 1918), Washington, DC; gift of the Estate of Henry Adams to the MFA [see note]. (Accession date: October 7, 2019)

NOTE:
The Museum's object ledger lists this book as a gift of the Estate of Henry Adams, but does not include the date. Possibly given on January 22, 1920 with other objects donated by the Estate on that date.