Edo prints
| Design: | Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | |||||
| Title: | Bellflower and dragonfly | |||||
| Series title: | Large flowers | |||||
| Size: | 25.6 x 38.1 cm (ōban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Originally published in 1832 by publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi.
Special effects: embossing (karazuri) on the wings of the dragonfly.
Artist’s signature in bottom 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
- Forrer, Matthi (1991). Hokusai, Prints and Drawings. Munich: Prestel Verlag and Royal Academy of Arts, London.
- Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.
Provenance: The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints