Lot 378
378
HOKUSAI: chuban yoko-e (18.7 x 25.5cm.); Kabari nagashi (Fly-hook fishing), from the series Chie no umi (Oceans of wisdom), signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu and published by Moriya Jihei--very good impression and color, a faint vertical centerfold, lightly backed
HOKUSAI: chuban yoko-e (18.7 x 25.5cm.); Kabari nagashi (Fly-hook fishing), from the series Chie no umi (Oceans of wisdom), signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu and published by Moriya Jihei--very good impression and color, a faint vertical centerfold, lightly backed

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HOKUSAI: chuban yoko-e (18.7 x 25.5cm.); Kabari nagashi (Fly-hook fishing), from the series Chie no umi (Oceans of wisdom), signed Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu and published by Moriya Jihei--very good impression and color, a faint vertical centerfold, lightly backed

Lot Essay

This is Hokusai's rarest series.
For other impressions see Narazaki Muneshige, gen. ed., Pari kokuritsu toshokan/Bibliothque Nationale, Paris, vol. 8 of Hizo ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989), pl. 126; Oka Kumasaburo, Hokusai, vol. 8 of Ukiyo-e taikei (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1974), no. 148; and Tokyo National Museum, ed., vol. 1 of Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku: Ukiyo-e hanga hen/Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1974), no. 3833.

Another impression was sold in these Rooms, 22 September, 1983, lot 110.