Honganji at Asakusa in the Eastern Capital, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to 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]

• Bichler, Lorenz and Melanie Trede. "Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo." Köln, Germany: Taschen, 2007. p. 31, no. 16
• 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. 608 (not illus.)
• Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. p. 498, fig. 11

• Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan: The Architect's Other Passion: Japan Society Gallery, 3/26/2001–7/15/2001

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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