Edo prints
| Design: | Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | |||||
| Title: | Tree peony and butterfly | |||||
| Series title: | Large flowers | |||||
| Size: | 25.4 x 36.9 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Theo Janssen |
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Originally published around 1832 by publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi.
Artist’s signature in left print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 前 | zen | before | |
| 北 | hoku | north | |
| 斎 | sai | room | Drawn by |
| 為 | i | change | Iitsu, |
| 一 | itsu | one | formerly known |
| 筆 | hitsu | writing brush | as Hokusai |
Round censorship seal reading kiwame (‘approved’), and square Eijūdō seal of the original publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi.
References
- Dalon, Laure, Nagata, Seiji, Negishi, Mika, Takemura, Makoto, Okuda, Atsuko (2014). Hokusai. Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, 1er octobre 2014 - 18 janvier 2015. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux.
- Forrer, Matthi (1991). Hokusai, Prints and Drawings. Munich: Prestel Verlag and Royal Academy of Arts, London.
- Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.
- Nagata, Seiji (1999). Hokusai. Genius of the Japanese Ukiyo-e. Tokyo: Kodansha International.
Provenance: The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints