Edo prints
| Design: | Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | |||||
| Title: | Hokusai manga, Volume 8 | |||||
| Size: | 24.3 x 16.0 cm | |||||
| Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Originally released in 1818 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.
Orange book cover with embossed repeated diamond shaped 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 |
| 八 | hachi | eight | |
| 編 | hen | volume | Volume 8 |
| 全 | zen | all | All in one |
This is the title page of the second edition of Volume 8 of the Hokusai manga:
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Volume title in the large middle column of this title page:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 北 | hoku | north | |
| 斎 | sai | room | |
| 漫 | man | random | Random sketches |
| 画 | ga | drawing | of Hokusai |
| 八 | hachi | eight | |
| 編 | hen | volume | Volume 8 |
Name of the artist in two lines to the right:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 葛 | katsu | arrowroot | |
| 飾 | shika | decorate | |
| 戴 | tai | be crowned with | |
| 斗 | to | Big Dipper | |
| 先 | sen | ahead | Designed by |
| 生 | sei | life | teacher |
| 筆 | hitsu | writing brush | Katsushika Taito |
On the left of the page is the publication date:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 戊 | tsuchinoe*) | 5th calendar sign | |
| 寅 | tora | tiger | Carved in the year |
| 彫 | hori | carved | of the tiger (i.e., 1818) |
and the firm name of the publisher:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 尾 | bi | tail | |
| 陽 | yō | positive | |
| 東 | tō | east | |
| 壁 | heki | wall | Tōhekidō |
| 堂 | dō | temple | of Biyō |
Seal on the verso of the title page:
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The full contents of Volume 8 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
- 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.
Provenance: Utagawa123
*) Tsuchinoe combines tsuchi (earth, one of the five elements) and e (yang).