Sawyers Cutting Lumber; Illustration of a Verse by Harumichi no Tsuraki, no. 32 from the series the Hyakunin isshu as Explained by an Old Nurse

1935, 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]

• 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. 669 (not illus.)
• Marks, Andreas. "The (Almost) Complete Hokusai." Taschen, 2024. pp. 644-645, fig. 26
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 220

• From Primitive to Decadent: Subject and Style in Japanese Prints, 1680-1880: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1/18/1991–3/3/1991

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

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