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A wide brimmed hat rests on right with leafy plants on and alongside it, with calligraphy across the lower half.

The 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
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
Title
Traveling Hat with Spring Greens
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, surimono
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
  • 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
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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

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