Ehon Tōshisen shichigonritsu

Object Details

• Artist

  Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

• Author

  Takai Ranzan 高井蘭山 (1762-1839)

• Block carver

  Sugita Kinsuke 杉田金助 (vols. 1, 3)

  Egawa Tomekichi 江川留吉 (vols. 2, 4, 5)

• Publisher

  Kobayashi Shinbe 小林新兵衛

• Previous custodian or owner

  Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Pulverer

• Provenance

  Kazo?

  To 2007

  Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Pulverer, Germany, to 2007

  From 2007

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Pulverer in 2007

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase, The Gerhard Pulverer Collection — Charles Lang Freer Endowment, Friends of the Freer and Sackler Galleries and the Harold P. Stern Memorial fund in appreciation of Jeffrey P. Cunard and his exemplary service to the Galleries as chair of the Board of Trustees (2003-2007)

• Type

  Book

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

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• Name

  Sugita, Kinsuke, Katsushika, Hokusai, Egawa, Tomekichi, Pulverer, Gerhard, Takai, Ranzan, Kobayashi, Shinbe

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Ehon, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Gerhard Pulverer collection

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Books