1933.4.2706: Hongan-ji Temple at Asakusa in Edo (Tōto Asakusa Hongan-ji), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
Prints
This object does not yet have a description.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.2706
- People
-
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
Published by Nishimuraya Yohachi 西村屋与八
- Title
- Hongan-ji Temple at Asakusa in Edo (Tōto Asakusa Hongan-ji), from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Fugaku sanjūrokkei: Tōto Asakusa Hongan-ji
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- c. 1831
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/206850
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ukiyo-e woodblock print in "ōban" format; ink and color on paper; with printed signature reading: "zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu"
- Dimensions
- 24.8 x 36.2 cm (9 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
-
- Signed: (printed) Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
-
From F.W. Gookin collection
Spaulding (?) [see notation in Japanese Print Notebook]
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.2706
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.
Publication History
- Matthi Forrer, Hokusai: Bridging East and West (In Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Artist's Death), exh. cat., Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1998), p. 66, cat. no. 76; p. 137; p. 185
Verification Level
This record was created from historic documentation and may not have been reviewed by a curator; it may be inaccurate or incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu