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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.481.7
People
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
Title
Hokusai manga (Hokusai Sketchbooks), vol. 8
Other Titles
Original Language Title: [伝神開手] 北斎漫画八編　全
Transliterated Title: [Denshin kaishu] Hokusai manga hachihen zen
Classification
Prints
Work Type
book
Date
Edo period, dated 1814-1878
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/201960

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock-printed book; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
closed (including cover): 22.5 x 15.7 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Stewart Mitchell Collection
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.481.7
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Orange cover, burnished, pattern of interlocking circles.
Thirteen publishers.

Publication History

  • Kit Brooks and Tamara Schenkenberg, Living Proof: Drawing in 19th-Century Japan, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2017), p.55
  • Thomas Bloor, Rebel Artists, HarperCollins Publishers (UK) (London, 2022), p. 10, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Living Proof: The Art of Japanese Draftsmanship in the 19th Century, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 11/03/2017 - 03/03/2018

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