The Surface of Lake Misaka in Kai Province, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji

Collection of Hayashi (Tokyo, Japan); by 1931, acquired by Aoyama (Paris, France); 1931, purchased from Aoyama (Paris, France) 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]

• Marks, Andreas. "Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji." Cologne: Taschen, 2021. p. 191, fig. 35-1.3
• 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. 646 (not illus.)
• Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. p. 514, fig. 35

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