Details
HOKUSAI: oban yoko-e (25 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, blue outline- good impression, color slightly faded, pin holes, small holes restored
Literature
Ukiyo-e taisha shusei (Tokyo 1931/2), vol. 15, no. 1; Ukiyo-e taikei, vol. 13, no. 1; Nihon hanga bijutsu zenshu (Tokyo, 1960-2), no. 8; Louis V. Ledoux, Japanese Prints, Hokusai and Hiroshige in the Collection of Louis V. Ledoux (Princeton, 1951), no. 21; Vignier and Inada, Yeishi, Choki, Hokusai...Estampes Japonaises Exposses au Musee des Arts Decoratifs en Janvier 1913 (1913), no. 258, pl. LXXIII; Richard Lane, Hokusai, His Life and Work (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1989), p. 190, color; Hillier, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I (London: Messrs. Sotheby and Co., March 1974), no. 300; M. Forrer, Hokusai, A guide to the serial graphics (Philadelphia and London, 1974), no. 107.28; Hillier, Hokusai, Paintings, Drawings and Woodcuts (London, 1955), pl. 65