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Meika gafu


名家画譜
Compiled by: Niwa Tôkei (Japanese)
Publisher: Eirakuya Tôshirô (Tôhekidô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
postface: 1814 (Bunka 11); preface: 1812 (Bunka 9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and limited color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 27.9 x 19.3 cm (11 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2011.811
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 382
Signed author (front endpaper): Tôkei sensei shû
見返し: 桃渓先生輯
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: August 23, 2011)