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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Random sketches by Hokusai (Hokusai manga): Vol. 1

Maker

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849, b. in Edo, Japan)
Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎 (Japanese, 1845 - 1894), publisher

Title

Random sketches by Hokusai (Hokusai manga): Vol. 1

Period

Meiji

Year

1814

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink

Supports

Geography

Place Made: Japan; Place Made: Tokyo

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.7 x 1.1 cm (9 x 6 3/16 x 7/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Octagonal label adhered to inside front cover, top right with inscription in ink: 31.394(.1)/Hokusai/Mangwa Vol. 1

Seals: Collector's seal of Hayashi.

Signature: Vols. I-X, signed | Katsushika Hokusai

Seals: Collector's seal | Hayashi Tadamasa | found in Vol. I

Identification

Edition

Eirakuya edition

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

31.394.1

Type

Exhibition History

Japonisme
Japanese Prints and Their Influences in France, ca. 1860-1880
Aug 26, 2005 – Feb 12, 2006

Label copy

This page of lively sketches from the first volume of Hokusai’s famed Manga illustrates figures in various positions, some of whom are women bathing. The wealth of imagery in these printed sketchbooks (and in other printed books by Hokusai) became important sources for French artists and were available in Paris as early as the 1850s. For Degas’s treatment of this subject, see the lithograph of a Standing Nude Woman Dressing (acc. no. 59.115, on view in the exhibition Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe on the fifth floor).

This copy of the Manga bears the seal of Tadamasa Hayashi (1854-1906), one of the great Japanese art dealers in late 19th-century Paris.

Japonisme
The Influence of Japanese Art on the West
Nov 04, 1994 – Jan 22, 1995
Hokusai's Sketchbooks
May 22, 1992 – Jul 25, 1992

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Tombstone

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849, b. in Edo, Japan)
Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎 (Japanese, 1845 - 1894), publisher
Random sketches by Hokusai (Hokusai manga): Vol. 1, 1814
woodblock printed book with paper wrappers, sewn
22.9 x 15.7 x 1.1 cm (9 x 6 3/16 x 7/16 inches)
Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Gustav Radeke 31.394.1

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