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Azuma asobi (Pleasures of the East)


東遊
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface: Sensoan Ichindo (Japanese)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1799 (Kansei 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 26.5 x 18.0 cm (ôhon)
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number1997.666
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Kokusho sômokuroku, rev. ed., vol. 1 (1989), p. 59; Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 83, pp. 43-6; Michener, Floating World (1954), #21; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 235
Signed Artist signature: Gako Hokusai
Inscriptions
ProvenanceKagifuji