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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1788
People
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
Title
Inkstone in a Horseshoe Shape (Bateiseki), from the series A Selection of Horses (Uma zukushi)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
Edo period, 1822
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207608

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban: 21.2 x 19.0 cm (8 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Fusenkyo Iitsu hitsu

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
1933.4.1788
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 111 / pp. 180-181
  • Matthi Forrer, Hokusai: Bridging East and West (In Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Artist's Death), exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1998), p. 111, cat. no. 142; p. 140; p. 179

Verification Level

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