Rural Landscape with Cottages and Cherry Tree; Illustration of a Verse by Ono no Komachi, no. 9 from the series the Hyakunin Isshu as Explained by an Old Nurse

1929, purchased from a dealer (Osaka, Japan) 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. 658 (not illus.)
• Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. pp. 634-635, fig. 7
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 220

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