Onna chôhôki (A Women's Treasury)

女重寳記

Katsushika Ôi (Japanese, active about 1818–after 1854)
Author: Takai Ranzan (Japanese)
Publisher: Suharaya Mohei (Senshôbô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

1847 (Kôka 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

Dimensions 25.3 x 17.9 cm (9 15/16 x 7 1/16 in.); ôhon

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse

Accession Number1997.425

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kobayashi Tadashi, "The Floating World ...," in Carpenter, ed., Hokusai and His Age (2005), p. 95, figs. 2-3

Signed Ôi Eijo Hitsu

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: July 31, 1998)