Fine Japanese Prints
Fine Japanese Prints
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Chrysanthemums and Horsefly | Edo period, 19th century
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Chrysanthemums and Horsefly
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from an untitled series known as Large Flowers, signed saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu, censor's seal kiwame, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), circa 1831-32
Horizontal oban: 26.6 x 39.3 cm., 10½ x 15½ in.
The so-called Large Flowers series that Hokusai designed for the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi in about 1831-32 comprises ten prints in total. In the present design, Hokusai delicately depicts a horsefly descending into a group of chrysanthemum flowers.
For another impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.17590, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/209490
For another in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, reference number 1925.3373, go to:
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/25110/chrysanthemums-and-bee-from-an-untitled-series-of-large-flowers