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Karukaya koden tama-kushige (Karukaya and the Jade Comb)


Hashira: Tamakushige
刈萱後伝玉櫛笥
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of text: Kyokutei Bakin (Japanese, 1767–1848)
Author of preface and postface: Kyokutei Bakin (Japanese, 1767–1848)
Publisher: Enomoto Sôemon (Mokurandô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
Preface: 1806; colophon: 1807

Medium/Technique Woodblcok printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions (kohon)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.702.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 139
Signed Artist signature: Katsushika Hokusai hitsu
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)