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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1232
People
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
Title
Wide View of Both Banks of the Sumida River, Edo
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
Edo period, circa 1804
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/208532

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "nagasurimono" format(?); ink and color on paper, with printed signature reading "Gakyōrōjin Hokusai utsusu"
Dimensions
Paper: H. 25.8 cm x W. 70.8 cm (10 3/16 x 27 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Gakyōrōjin Hokusai utsusu

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
1933.4.1232
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 46, cat. no. 36; p. 135; p. 188

Verification Level

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