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Ehon teiken ôrai (Illustrated By-ways of Home Learning)


絵本庭訓往来 初編
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1828 (Bunsei 11)

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper
Dimensions 22.4 x 15.7 cm (chûbon)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.806
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Hillier, Art of Hokusai in Book Illus. (1980), list no. 230; Toda, Ryerson Library cat. (1931), p. 258
Signed Gakô saki no Hokusai Iitsu sha
Marks Seal: 2 walking men
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)