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Hokusai gakan (A Mirror of Pictures by Hokusai)


北斎画鑑
Artist unknown, Japanese
After: Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
After: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Meiji era
dates unknown

Medium/Technique Ink and color on paper
Dimensions 26.0 x 18.4 cm
Credit Line Source unidentified
Accession Number1997.549
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Signed No artist signature.
ProvenanceProbably by 1903, part of the library of the department of the Art of Asia, Museum of Fine Arts [see note]; 1997, catalogued by the MFA; 1998, accessioned by the MFA. (Accession Date: July 31, 1998)

NOTE: This may have been deposited at the MFA by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston. Much of Bigelow’s collection of Asian art, books, and works on paper was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA between about 1890 and 1903.