Details
HOKUSAI: oban yoko-e (24.8 x 37.3 cm.); Kanagawa oki nami ura "In the well of the great wave off Kanagawa", from the series Fugaku sanjurokkei "The thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji", signed Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu and published by Eijudo [Nishimuraya Yohachi], blue outline- good impression, slightly faded, center fold, worming restored
Literature
Ukiyo-e taika shusei, vol. 15, no. 1, Tokyo, 1931-2; Ukiyo-e taikei, vol. 13, no. 1; Nihon hanga bijutsu zenshu, Tokyo, 1960-2, no. 21; Vignier and Inada. Yeishi, Choki, Hokusai...Estampes Japonaises Exposees au Musee des Arts Decoratifs en Janvier 1913, Paris, 1913, no. 258, pl. LXXIII; Lane, Richard. Hokusai, His life and Work, London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1989, p. 190; Hillier, Jack. Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I, London: Sotheby and Co., 1974, no. 300; Forrer, M. Hokusai, A guide to the serial graphics, Philadelphia and London, 1974, no. 107.28; Hillier, Jack. Hokusai, Paintings, Drawings and Woodcuts, London, 1955, pl. 65; Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New York, Summer 1985, pp. 40-1