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Kôrin gafu (The Kôrin Picture Album)


光琳画譜
Nakamura Hôchû (Japanese, active about 1799–1818)
After: Ogata Kôrin (Japanese, 1658–1716)
Author of preface: Tachibana Chikage (1735–1808)
Publisher: Izumiya Shôjirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1826 (Bunsei 9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 27.7 x 18.9 cm (10 7/8 x 7 7/16 in.); ôbon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.533.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Saunders, Le Japon Artistique (MFA, 2010), selected images from this impression, pp. 31-35; Keyes, Ehon (2006), #32; Hillier, Art of the Japanese Book (1987), pp. 654-60; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 359
Signed Artist signature: Hôchû kore o utsusen
Marks Artist seal: Kakihan
Inscriptions
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)