Edo prints
| Design: | Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | |||||
| Title: | Chōshi in Shimōsa Province | |||||
| Series title: | One thousand pictures of the sea | |||||
| Size: | 18.2 x 26.3 cm (chūban) | |||||
| Posthumous printing from newly cut woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Originally published around 1830-1834 by publisher Moriya Jihei.
Artist’s signature in left print area:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 先 | saki | earlier | |
| の | no | ’s | |
| 北 | hoku | north | |
| 斎 | sai | room | Drawn by Hokusai |
| 為 | i | change | changing his name |
| 一 | itsu | one | into Iitsu (meaning |
| 筆 | hitsu | writing brush | ‘‘One year old again’’) |
Series and print title in red cartouche in top right of the print:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 千 | chi | thousand | |
| 絵 | e | picture | |
| の | no | ’s | One thousand pictures |
| 海 | umi | sea | of the sea |
| 総 | sō | whole | |
| 州 | shū | province | |
| 銚 | chō | sake bottle | Chōshi |
| 子 | shi | child | in Shimōsa Province |
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.
Provenance: The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints