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Fugaku hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji), Volumes 1–3


富嶽百景
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Ryûtei Tanehiko (Japanese, 1783–1842)
Author of preface: Rozan Eko (Japanese, 1865–1944)
Author of preface: Shippô Sankarôjin Ogasa (Japanese)
Publisher: Eirakuya Tôshirô (Tôhekidô) (Japanese)
Blockcutter: Egawa Sentarô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1834–35

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 22.6 × 15.7 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/16 in.); chûbon
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number1997.816.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #159; Keyes, Ehon (2006), #54; Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 7 (1990), p. 18; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 241; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 262
ProvenanceProbably by 1903, part of the library of the department of the Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts [see note]; 1997, catalogued by the MFA; 1998, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

NOTE: This may have been deposited at the MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston. Much of Bigelow’s collection of Asian art, books, and works on paper 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 between about 1890 and 1903.