Fishing with Handheld Nets (Mochi-ami), from the series One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Fishing with Handheld Nets (Mochi-ami), from the series One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)

Fishing with Handheld Nets (Mochi-ami), from the series One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)

「千絵の海　特チ綱」

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1833 (Tenpô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 18.7 x 25.3 cm (7 3/8 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6693

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 226, horizontal chûban #3.05

Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

ProvenanceFormerly in the Sumitomo collection; June 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.