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(Gojûsan tsugi) Hokusai dôchû gafu (Hokusai's Picture Album of the 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road)


Title page: Dochu gafu
(五十三次)北斎道中画譜
Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850)
Author of preface: Takai Ranzan (Japanese)
Publisher: Hosokawa Kohachiro
Japanese
Meiji era
Colophon: 4/1881

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 22.4 x 16 cm (8 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.); hanshibon
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.574.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

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)