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The Youth's Journey, from the series A Mirror with Truthful Reflections of Chinese and Japanese Verse

The Youth's Journey, from the series A Mirror with Truthful Reflections of Chinese and Japanese Verse

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Katsushika Hokusai

Artist/Maker
Katsushika Hokusai
(Japanese, 1760 - 1849)
Title
The Youth's Journey, from the series A Mirror with Truthful Reflections of Chinese and Japanese Verse
Date
ca.1835
Material & Process
Color woodcut
Dimensions
495 x 227 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Inventory No.
1980.2425A
Classification
Prints
Location
Japan

Related

1930, purchased from Aoyama (Paris, France) by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. p. 562, fig. 1
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 219

  • Japanese Masterworks: Woodblock Prints from the Chazen Museum of Art Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 5/6/2016–8/14/2016

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