1928.15.61: Hokusai manga (Hokusai Sketchbooks), vol. 6
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1928.15.61
- People
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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
- Title
- Hokusai manga (Hokusai Sketchbooks), vol. 6
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: [伝神開手] 北斎漫画六編 全
Transliterated Title: [Denshin kaidshu] Hokusai manga rokuhen zen - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- book
- Date
- Edo period, 1814-1878
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/209420
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock-printed book; ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- closed (including cover): 22.6 × 15.2 × 1.3 cm (8 7/8 × 6 × 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Tōto gakō Katsushika Hokusai hitsu 東都画工 葛飾北斎筆 (printed postface)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Osborn Taylor
- Accession Year
- 1928
- Object Number
- 1928.15.61
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
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Dark blue cover, burnished, pattern of interlocking circles.
Four publishers: Eiya Heikichi 英屋平吉, Takekawa Tōbei 竹川藤兵衛, Kadomaruya Jinsuke 角丸屋甚助, and Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎.
Publication History
- Kit Brooks and Tamara Schenkenberg, Living Proof: Drawing in 19th-Century Japan, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2017), p. 55
Exhibition History
- Living Proof: The Art of Japanese Draftsmanship in the 19th Century, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 11/03/2017 - 03/03/2018
Verification Level
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