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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1758
People
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
Title
Woman Writing by Sake Barrel / Rihaku (Li Bai / Li Bo), from the series Eight Drinking Immortals (Inchu hassen)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Inchu hassen, Li Bai (Li Bo)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print, surimono
Date
Edo period, circa 1805
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207992

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "jūni-giri ban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper, with printed signature reading "Kyūkyūshin aratame Hokusai ga"
Dimensions
Paper: H. 21.3 cm x W. 9.5 cm (8 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Kyūkyūshin aratame Hokusai ga

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
1933.4.1758
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John T Carpenter, ed., Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints with a Catalogue of the Marino Lusy Collection, exh. cat. (Leiden, 2008), p. 96/Fig. 5

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