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北斎写真画譜
Hokusai shashin gafu (Hokusai's Album of Pictures from Nature)
北斎写真画譜
Japanese
Edo period
1814
Medium/Technique
Woodblock printed book; ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 25.8 x 17.1 cm (10 3/16 x 6 3/4 in.); ôhon; orihon
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.882
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Hokusai (2013), #135; Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 7 (1990), p. 307; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 185
Signed
No artist signature
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; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession date: July 31, 1998)