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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Lot 111 PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

POEM BY MOTOYOSHI SHINNO

Closed5 December 2017

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GBP 3,750

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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
POEM BY MOTOYOSHI SHINNO
Woodblock print, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), signed Saki no Hokusai Manji [by Manji, the former Hokusai], published by Iseya Sanjiro, circa 1835-36
Horizontal oban (24.8 x 36 cm.)

Specialist note

For another impression of the same print in the collections of The British Museum, Museum number 1906,1220,0.578, go to:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=787289&partId=1