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Puppeteer Holding Puppet on Go Board


碁盤人形 (複製)
After: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
1890s copy of 1820s design

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Shikishiban; 21.4 x 18.6 cm (8 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession NumberRES.53.136
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, List of surimono copies in square format, #102; the original: Chiba Museum, Edo no surimono (1997), #281; Bowie et al, Art of the Surimono (1979), #107
DescriptionGroup C copy.

MFA impressions, both reproductions: 11.25211, RES.53.136
Signed Hokusai aratamete Iitsu hitsu
北斎改戴斗筆
Provenance1953, gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1953)