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Katsushika Hokusai

Edo (today Tokyo) 1760 – 1849 Asakusa (today Tokyo)

Thirteen volumes of the "Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga“. 1878ff.

Colour woodcuts in black, grey and salmon on folded sheets of laid paper; each in a coloured paper cover with thread stitching. 24,3 × 16 cm, so-called e-dehon (9 ⅝ × 6 ¼ in., so-called e-dehon).
This picture shows the following artwork: Katsushika Hokusai. Thirteen volumes of the

Estimate:

EUR 3,000

 

- 5,000

USD 3,360

 

- 5,600

Sold for:

3,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.12.2016

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Colour woodcuts in black, grey and salmon on folded sheets of laid paper; each in a coloured paper cover with thread stitching. 24,3 × 16 cm, so-called e-dehon (9 ⅝ × 6 ¼ in., so-called e-dehon). Signature: Katsushika Hokusai hitsu / Siegel: Raishin. Second and following editions (first edition 1819) / Published by Eirakuya Toshiro, Nagoya u.A. Missing volumes 1 and 13.

Related literature: Matthi Forrer: Eirakuya Tōshirō. Publisher at Nagoya. A contribution to the history of publishing in 19th century Japan paper, Amsterdam 1982, p. 139-183 / Seiji Nagata (ed.): Hokusai, exh. cat., Berlin 2011, p. 2ff. / Matthi Forrer: Hokusai. La Manga. L’Édition complète commentée, Paris 2014 / Laure Dalon and Seiji Nagata (ed.): Hokusai, exh. cat., Paris 2014, p. 22-37.

Private collection, London

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