Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Sekiya village on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa sekiya no sato), Edo (Japanese period)

Maker

Title

Sekiya village on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa sekiya no sato)

Year

Edo (Japanese period)

Medium

ink and color

Materials/Techniques

Dimensions

Image: 25.4 x 37.3 cm (10 x 14 11/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Rectangular white label with blue border affixed verso, bottom left with inscription in ink:[#46] [G]oncourt's/[Missing Characters] [Hok]usai 36 Fuji/[Missing Characters] [Sek]iya no Sato/[Missing characters] [Su]mida River."[notations} inscription lower left #46 indicates the number in the series (different from Lane; UTK) given in Edmond de Goncourt, Hokusai (Paris, 1896). A watercolor of galloping horses was commissioned from Hokusai by Philipp Frank von Siebold in the 1820s.

Signature: Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu

Seals: Publisher's seal | Eijudo

Identification

Edition

Edition: blue outlines

Place

Place Made: Japan

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

20.1215

Sekiya village on the Sumida River (Sumidagawa sekiya no sato)
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Fugaku sanjurokkei

Edition: blue outlines

Rectangular white label with blue border affixed verso, bottom left with inscription in ink:[#46] [G]oncourt's/[Missing Characters] [Hok]usai 36 Fuji/[Missing Characters] [Sek]iya no Sato/[Missing characters] [Su]mida River."[notations} inscription lower left #46 indicates the number in the series (different from Lane; UTK) given in Edmond de Goncourt, Hokusai (Paris, 1896). A watercolor of galloping horses was commissioned from Hokusai by Philipp Frank von Siebold in the 1820s.

Signature: Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu

Seals: Publisher's seal | Eijudo

Place Made: Japan

Exhibition History

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