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The Dish Mansion, from the series One Hundred Ghost Tales

The Dish Mansion, from the series One Hundred Ghost Tales

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Katsushika Hokusai

Artist
Katsushika Hokusai
(Japanese, 1760 - 1849)
Title
The Dish Mansion, from the series One Hundred Ghost Tales
Date
1830
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
252 x 191 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.2376
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

10 September 1932, acquired through trade from Judson D. Metzgar (Los Angeles, CA and Moline, IL) by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Keyes, Roger S., Peter Morse. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Single-Sheet Colour Woodblock Prints of Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)." The British Museum, 2015. https://www.dh-jac.net/db1/booksrske/search.php. cat. no. 905 (not illus.)
  • Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. p. 526, fig. 5

  • Paper Women: The Female in Japanese prints: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 7/23/1994–9/18/1994

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