Whaling off the Gotô Islands (Gotô kujira tsuki), from the series One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Whaling off the Gotô Islands (Gotô kujira tsuki), from the series One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)

Whaling off the Gotô Islands (Gotô kujira tsuki), from the series One Thousand Pictures of the Ocean (Chie no umi)

「千絵の海　五島鯨突」

Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1833 (Tenpô 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 18.7 x 25.7 cm (7 3/8 x 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.6694

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 16 (1981), p. 226, horizontal chûban #3.10

DescriptionMFA impressions: 21.6694, 1989.668

Signed Saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
前北斎為一筆

ProvenanceFormerly in the Sumitomo collection; June 1913, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Yamanaka & Co.; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.