Katsushika Hokusai Lot n° 405

Katsushika Hokusai Ôban. Series: Fugaku sanjurokkei. Title: Aoyama. Enza-no-matsu. Picnic near the Cushion Pine at Aoyama. Signed: Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu. Published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), circa 1830-1831. Blue outlines. Good impression, colours a bit faded, centre fold, left and lower margins trimmed, corners trimmed, missing spots and areas restored, especially along the lower margin Compare two woodblock prints very similar in colours: in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.17633, and Sotheby's Hong Kong, Chinese Art, including the late John Payne collection of Japanese prints, 2.6.2017, lot 741 Provenance Private collection, Cologne, acquired in 1982 at Bödiger, Bonn, Germany