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Yôjin kanjin (Essential Caution)


Fukujukai muryo no shinadama (A Star of the Sea of Happiness and Everlasting Life)
用心肝心
Attributed to: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Author of preface and text: Kyokutei Bakin (Japanese, 1767–1848)
Author of preface and postface: Torai Sanjin
Japanese
Edo period
1794

Medium/Technique Woodblock printed book; ink on paper with some hand coloring
Dimensions 21.0 x 15.4 cm (chûbon)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Jared K. Morse in memory of Charles J. Morse
Accession Number1997.651
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books

Catalogue Raisonné Brown p.181
InscriptionsUnsigned
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)