Edo prints


  Design: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)  
  Title: Hokusai manga, Volume 13  
  Size: 23.8 x 16.1 cm  
  Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Hokusai Manga Volume 13

Enlargement


Originally released in 1849 in Nagoya by publisher Eirakuya Tōshirō. This is a later edition of superb print quality released in 1877 by Tokyo publisher Yoshikawa Hanshichi who purchased the blocks from Eirakuya Tōshirō.

Black book cover with blind-printed Chinese pattern.

Title printed in red on a white slip on the book cover:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
katsu arrowroot  
shika decorate Katsushika
       
i change  
itsu one one year old again
       
i leave behind  
boku black ink brushwork
       
hoku north  
sai room  
man random Random sketches
ga drawing of Hokusai
       
ten  
san three  
hen volume Volume 13
       
zen all All in one


The full contents of Volume 13 of the Hokusai manga can be viewed on the website dedicated to the Gerhard Pulverer Collection here, as well as in the book by Forrer (2014) containing photographic reproductions of all fifteen Hokusai manga volumes, including explanations of each image in French.


References


Provenance: Yagiya Bobongua store

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