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Ehon Kanso gundan (Illustrated Narratives of the War of Han and Chu)


絵本漢楚軍談
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1845 (Kôka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book
Dimensions 22.0 x 15.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number2011.1583.1-20
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 256; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 266
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: September 15, 2011)