1933.4.2680: Traveling Hat with Spring Greens
PrintsThe shape of the light-colored hat is defined with light hatch marks all around. Plant greens, fresh cut stems, and ribbon wrap around the hat. It’s all displayed horizontally at the top half of the print. The greens appear realistic in color, texture, showing both the front and underside of the leaves. The print has minimal colors of greens, muted orange, browns. Vertical calligraphy lines are written in the bottom half, with a small red seal in middle of the left edge. No background, only the paper’s neutral color.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.2680
- People
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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
- Title
- Traveling Hat with Spring Greens
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- surimono, print
- Date
- 1801
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/206799
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- yokonagaban, unfolded: H. 39.9 × W. 54.4 cm (15 11/16 × 21 7/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Gakyōjin Hokusai utsusu
- seal: Hayashi Tadamasa " 林忠正" seal on the middle left side of the print.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.2680
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 267
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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