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Asian Art
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese, 1760–1849
Portable lacquer picnic carrier and cherry blossoms
1795–1806
Surimono, double ō-ban; polychrome woodblock print with brass, silver, and light embossing on stamen
sheet: 15 15/16 × 21 5/8 in. (40.5 × 55 cm)
Gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970
2018.116.6
Geography:
Japan
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification:
Works on Paper - Prints
Provenance:
Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2018
Bibliography:
“Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/bulletin/Pub-Bull-acquisitions-2018.pdf (accessed December 1, 2018).
Sadako Ohki and Adam Haliburton, The Private World of Surimono: Japanese Prints from the Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian Collection (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2020), 243, no. 155, ill.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.