Artists
Saitō Gesshin (editor)
(斉藤月岑; 1804–1878)
Hasegawa Settei (illustrator)
(長谷川雪堤; 1819–1882)
Catalogue information
Meiji era, 1889
Six-volume book; illustrations in ink on paper
Each volume approx. 26 x 17.6 cm (10 1/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
First published in 1839; second edition, 1847; third edition, 1889
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
See also
- Japanese printed works
- Books
- Works of the Meiji period
- This work, which bears visual evidence of fire damage to the handscroll, is a record of Usugumo monogatari (薄雲物語)
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 501 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Text
[at end of sixth volume] Copy of old six-panel screen painting from around the Kan’ei
[1624–43] or Shoho
[1644–47] era
Seal
Settei