Thunder God

Object Details

• Artist

  IEI Corporation, Tokyo Japan

• Description

  Photomechanical reproduction of Hokusai's "Thunder God" mounted as a hanging scroll.

• Previous custodian or owner

  IEI Corporation

• Provenance

  To 1995

  IEI Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. [1]

  From 1995

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of IEI Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] The IEI Corporation, a Japanese firm that the Freer Gallery of Art licensed with to reproduce paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art collection for sale in the gift shop had sent this "gratis" copy of the Thunder God for acceptance into the Study Collection.

  [2] See note 1. See also object record.

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of the IEI Corporation

• Type

  Print

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1990s

• Name

  IEI Corporation, IEI Corporation, Tokyo Japan

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Heisei era (1989 - 2019), Reproduction, Art, Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Prints