Ippitsu gafu 一筆画譜, FSC-GR-780.232
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Description
Contents
Commentary
Accession No.
FSC-GR-780.232
Title
Ippitsu gafu
一筆画譜
Date
1823 (Bunsei 6)
Artist
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)
Publisher
Eirakuya Tōshirō 永楽屋東四郎 , (other 12)
City
Nagoya
Description
1 volume in modern case
Binding
fukurotoji (pouch binding)
Medium
Woodblock printed; ink and color on paper; paper covers
Marks
Owner's seal: Pulverer
Format
chūbon
Dimensions
22.8 x 15.5 x 0.8 cm
Provenance
To ?
Willibald Netto
To 2007
Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Pulverer, Germany, to 2007
From 2007
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Dr. and Mrs. Gerhard Pulverer in 2007
Credit Line
Purchase, The Gerhard Pulverer Collection — Charles Lang Freer Endowment, Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art and the Harold P. Stern Memorial fund in appreciation of Jeffrey P. Cunard and his exemplary service to the Museum as chair of the Board of Trustees (2003-2007)
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Accession no. FSC-GR-780.232
Title: Ippitsu gafu 一筆画譜
NIJL catalogue no. 245
Volume numbers: Complete in one volume 全
Variant title: Denshin kaishu Ippitsu gafu 伝神開手一筆画譜 (daisen, full title)
Contents/Foliation: Preface signed Shinrinshi 申林子
Block-holder's catalogue of printed books (Tōhekidō seihon gafu mokuroku 東壁堂製本画譜目録)
Seals and inscriptions: Owner's seal: Pulverer
Additional colophon data: Colophon lists twelve other publishers
Notes: Main title from daisen (short title)
Date from preface
(Denshin kaishu) Ippitsu gafu 伝神開手一筆画譜
FSC-GR-780.232
Commentary by Ann Yonemura
Posted November 2014
This book is one of several edehon (painters’ manuals) created by Hokusai to demonstrate techniques for painting and drawing with a brush. Printed with ink and light colors, the “One brushstroke painting manual” was intended to demonstrate methods of rendering form while minimizing the number of times the brush was lifted from the paper.
The subjects include landscapes, birds, and human figures engaged in various activities and often posing humorously. In one landscape, distant mountains are delineated by a single brushstroke, and sailboats are rendered like calligraphic characters.
The Nagoya publisher Eirakuya Tōshirō produced the first edition; the Pulverer example is a later printing with identical content (Forrer 1985, p. 227). According to its preface, dated Bunsei 6 (1823), the book was based on sketches by Fukuzensai (Niwa Kagen) that Hokusai had seen in Nagoya. A wrapper (fukuro) (Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden 1-4449) records the name of Fukuzensai as originator of the designs and “Musashi Hokusai Taito sensei shii” (Master Hokusai Taito of Musashi province, following his intention) (Forrer 1985, p. 227).
Selected reading:
Matthi Forrer, Eirakuya Tōshirō, Publisher at Nagoya: A Contribution to the History of Publishing in 19th-Century Japan (Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 1985), pp. 226–27.
Jack Hillier, The Art of Hokusai in Book Illustration (London: Sotheby Parke-Bernet Publications; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), pp. 190–92.
C. H. Mitchell, The Illustrated Books of the Nanga, Maruyama-Shijo, and other related schools of Japan (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1972), pp. 308–309.
Toda Kenji, Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Books in the Ryerson Library of the Art Institute of Chicago (1931; repr., Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2005), p. 258.
Copies in other collections:
Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson Collection
British Library, London
Freer Gallery of Art Library
National Institute of Japanese Literature
Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden (1-4449)