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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 65. Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) (artist) Yamada Isai (1788–1846) (author) | The Life of Shakyamuni Illustrated (Shaka goichidaiki zue) | Edo period, 19th century .

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) (artist) Yamada Isai (1788–1846) (author) | The Life of Shakyamuni Illustrated (Shaka goichidaiki zue) | Edo period, 19th century

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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Property from the Japan Society Library, London

Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) (artist)

Yamada Isai (1788–1846) (author)

The Life of Shakyamuni Illustrated (Shaka goichidaiki zue)

Edo period, 19th century

 

woodblock printed book, 6 volumes (complete), preface by Daiko Sogen (1772–1860), dated Bunka 2 (1845), published by Echigoya Jihee (Kyoto), Yamashiroya Sahee (Edo), Kawachiya Mohee (Osaka); binding: fukurotoji (pouch binding), embossed dark brown covers; encased in a 20th century fitted blue linen board case with impressed gold leaf Japan Society Imperial chrysanthemum crest


Obon: 25 x 17.8 cm., ?? x ?? in.

The six-volume book contains thirty-two monochrome illustrations by Hokusai of episodes from the Buddha’s life story, accompanied by text by Yamada Isai. For further reading and another impression in the Arthur Tress Collection, in the Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, go to:

https://web.sas.upenn.edu/tressjapanese/2021/02/09/yamada-isai-%E5%B1%B1%E7%94%B0%E6%84%8F%E6%96%8E-and-katsushika-hokusai-%E8%91%9B%E9%A3%BE%E5%8C%97%E6%96%8E-shaka-go-ishidaiki-zue-%E9%87%88%E8%BF%A6%E5%BE%A1%E4%B8%80%E4%BB%A3%E8%A8%98%E5%9B%B3/

 

Another impression is also in the collection of The MET, New York, accession no. 2013.736a–f, go to:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78638