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(Ehon kyôka) Yama mata yama (Mountains of Verse)


絵本山満多山 下
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of postface: Ôharatei Sumikata (Japanese)
Publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô (Kôshodô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1804 (Kyôwa 4/Bunka 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions 25.4 x 17.0 cm (chûbon)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.687
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 114; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 241
Signed Unsigned
ProvenanceBetween about 1897 and 1907, probably acquired in Japan by Charles J. Morse (b. 1852 - d. 1911), Evanston, IL; by descent to his son, Jared Kirtland Morse (b. 1886 - d. 1949) and his wife, Caroline Roberts Morse (b. 1907 - d. 1982), Cromwell, CT; gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)