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Hokusai manga sôhitsu no bu (Hokusai Sketchbook: Cursive Drawings)


北斎漫畫草筆之部
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Nagao Kageyoshi (Japanese)
Publisher: Kikuya Kôsaburô (Kinkôdô)
Blockcutter: Suzuki Eijirô (Japanese, active 1830s--40s)
Japanese
Edo period
preface: 1832; colophon: 1843

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 22.5 x 15.6 cm (8 7/8 x 6 1/8 in.); chûbon
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number2019.939
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 257; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 264
Signed artist signature: Saki no Hokusai Manjiô hitsu
東都前北斎卍翁筆
Provenance2019, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession date: October 7, 2019)