Juvenile Instructions of the Boy Monju (Chigo monju osana kyokun)

Arts of Asia

1801

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎
Japanese, 1760-1849

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Asia

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Title: Juvenile Instructions of the Boy Monju (Chigo monju osana kyokun), 児童文殊稚教訓
Place: Japan (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1796-1806
Medium: Woodblock-printed book; loose plates
Inscriptions: Signatures: Tokitarô Sorobeku & Hokusai ga saku Publisher: Tsuta-ya Jûzaburô II
Dimensions: 26.8 × 20.3 cm (10 9/16 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 2022.1401
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“Torii Kiyonaga, the Birth of Venus in Edo”, organized by Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba Japan, April 28 - June 10, 2007.
March 4- May 14, 2006, Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, Hokusal the Immortal.

Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, Japan, c.1878–90 [this and the following according to Frederick Gookin, “Preface,” in Kenji Toda, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1931), iii-iv, and Accession Book: 1-62, 112, 1884?-1955, Ryerson Art Library, Art Institute of Chicago]; sold to Francis Lathrop (died 1909), Woodcliff Lake, NJ; by descent to Mr. Hamilton Easter Field (died 1922), Brooklyn, NY; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Lake Geneva, WI, 1923; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923-1931.

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