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Edo prints

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	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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Enlargement

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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
葛	katsu	arrowroot
飾	shika	decorate	Katsushika
為	i	change
一	itsu	one	one year old again
遺	i	leave behind
墨	boku	black ink	brushwork
北	hoku	north
斎	sai	room
漫	man	random	Random sketches
画	ga	drawing	of Hokusai
十	jū	ten
三	san	three
編	hen	volume	Volume 13
全	zen	all	All in one

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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.

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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 (1985). Eirakuya Tōshirō, publisher at Nagoya. A contribution to the history of publishing in 19th century Japan. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben.

• Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.

• Forrer, Matthi (2014). Hokusai. La Manga. L’Édition Complète Commentée (2 volumes in slipcase). Paris: Editions Hazan.

• Forrer, Matthi, Gulik, Willem R. van, and Kaempfer, Heinz M. (1982). Hokusai and his school: paintings, drawings and illustrated books. Leiden: Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts.

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Provenance: Yagiya Bobongua store