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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE JAPAN UKIYO-E MUSEUM, MATSUMOTO
80 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)

Mitate Asazuma bune

(Parody of Asazuma Boat), 1804-05

Signed Gakyojin Hokusai ga, sealed Kimo
dasoku; inscription signed by Ota Nanpo
(Shokusanjin)
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
13æ x 22º in. (34.9 x 56.5 cm.)

$400,000-500,000

PROVENANCE:
Okada Shin'ichiro (1883-1932), Tokyo, architect
Sasagawa Rinpu (1870-1949), Tokyo, haiku poet

EXHIBITED: LITERATURE:
“Three Hundred Years of Ukiyo-e / Exhibition of Three Hundred Years of Ukiyo-e / Exhibition of
Masterpieces from The Sakai Collection,” Tobu Masterpieces from The Sakai Collection(Tokyo: Nihon
Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, 18-27 October 1968 Keizai Shinbun, Inc., 1968). no. 58.
Nihon Ukiyo-e Hakubutsukan / Nikuhitsu Ukiyo-e meihin
"Nihon Ukiyo-e Hakubutsukan / Nikuhitsu Ukiyo-e
ten (Masterpieces in the collection of the Japan Ukiyo-e
meihin ten (Masterpieces in the collection of the Japan
Museum) (Tokyo: Yomiuri Shinbun, Inc., 1985), cat. no. 52.
Ukiyo-e Museum)," Ota Memorial Museum of Art, 1985
Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, ed., Nihon Ukiyo-e Hakubutsukan
"Dai Hokusai ten: Edo ga unda sekai no eshi (Great
/ Nikuhitsu Ukiyo-e senshu (Selected Ukiyo-e paintings in
Hokusai exhibition: International artist born in Edo),"
the Japan Ukiyo-e Museum Collection) (Tokyo: Gakken
exhibited at the following venues:
Co., Ltd, 1985). no. 170.
Tobu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2 January-14 February 1993
Japan Ukiyoe Academy, ed., Hokusai (Tokyo: Yomiuri
Otsu City Museum of History, Otsu, 2 March-11 April 1993
Shinbun, Inc., 1993). cat. no. S5.
Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi City,
Nagata Seiji, ed., Dai Hokusai ten: Edo ga unda sekai no
20 April-23 May 1993
eshi (Great Hokusai Exhibition: International artist born
"Hokusai / Nihon Ukiyo-e Hakubutsukan shozo (Hokusai
in Edo) (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbun, 1993). no. 26.
/ The loan exhibition from the Japan Ukiyo-e Museum),"
Gian Carlo Calza, ed., Hokusai(Milan: Electa, 1999), no. III.45.
exhibited at the following venues:
Hokusai ten (Hokusai exhibition) (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai
Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 29 December 1993-11 January 1994
Shinbun, Inc, 2005). cat. no. 163.
Daimaru Museum, Osaka, 10 Feburary-15 February 1994
John T. Carpenter, ed., Hokusai and His Age (Amsterdam:
Daimaru Bunka Hall, Shimonoseki, 10 March-15 March 1994
Hotei Publishing, 2005). no. 14.
Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, 24 March-5 April 1994
Nagata Seiji, ed., Shin Hokusai ten / Hokusai updated
"Hokusai ten (Hokusai exhibition)," Tokyo National
(Tokyo: Nikkei Inc., NHK, NHK Promotions Inc, 2019).
Museum, 25 October-4 December 2005
cat. no. 132.
"Shin Hokusai ten (Hokusai updated)," Mori Arts Center
Gallery, Tokyo, 17 January-24 March 2019