1933.4.1813: View of Enoshima (First Work on the First Day of the Year of the Goat, 1799)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.4.1813

People

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)

Title

View of Enoshima (First Work on the First Day of the Year of the Goat, 1799)

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print, surimono

Date

Edo period, dated to 1799 (Kansei 11)

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/207593

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

H. 19.9 x W. 27.5 cm (7 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: (printed) Sori aratame Hokusai ga

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

1933.4.1813

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 097 / pp. 158-159
• 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. 51, cat. no. 47; p. 136; p. 187
• Matthi Forrer, Hokusai, Prestel Verlag (New York, NY; Munich, Germany, 2010), pp. 52-53, fig. 36
• Yamagiwa Maho, "'The Great Wave' from the Series 'Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji': Considerations of Expression of 'the Great Wave'", Hokusai Study and Research, ed. Nagata Seiji, Sumida Arts Foundation (Kyoto, March 30, 2012), No. 49, pp. 17-40, repr. in b/w p. 26, fig. 4

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