Edo prints


  Design: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)  
  Title: Hokusai manga, Volume 14  
  Size: 22.7 x 15.7 cm  
  Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks    
  Photography: Jacques Commandeur
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Hokusai Manga Volume 14

Enlargement


Originally released around 1850 in Nagoya by publisher Eirakuya Tōshirō, whose firm was called Tōhekidō. This is the second edition released by the same publisher on 1 September 1878.

Bluish-grey book cover with embossed repeated diamond shaped 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  
shi four  
hen volume Volume 14
       
zen all All in one


This is the title page of the second edition of Hokusai manga Volume 14:

Hokusai Manga Volume 14 title page

Volume title in the large middle column of this title page:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
hoku north  
sai room  
man random Random sketches
ga drawing of Hokusai
       
ten  
yon four  
hen volume Volume 14

On the right of the page is the name of the artist:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
katsu arrowroot  
shika decorate  
i change  
itsu one Designed by Katsushika
hitsu brush one year old again

and the firm name of the publisher is on the left:

Character Reading Meaning Translation
       
bi tail  
positive  
       
east  
heki wall Tōhekidō
temple of Biyō


This is the seal on the verso of the title page of this volume:

Hokusai Manga Volume 14 seal

The full contents of Volume 14 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: Shukado

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