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AFTER KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Horsefly and prickly water lily
Bearing signature Gakyo rojin Manji hitsu yowai hachijuichi (painted by old man Manji mad about painting at age 81), and seal Katsushika
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
11¾ x 21¾ in. (29.7 x 55.8 cm.)

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Literature
Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, ed., Hokusai ten (Hokusai exhibition) (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1967), pl. 55.

Kaneko Fusui, Koyama Kanji and Aoki Shinzaburo, eds., Nikuhitsu Katsushika Hokusai (Paintings by Katsushika Hokusai) (Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1975), pl. 98.
Exhibited
"Exhibition of Katsushika Hokusai's Paintings, Drawings and Prints from Japanese Collections," shown at the following venues:
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, 1966
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 1966

"Hokusai ten" (Hokusai exhibition), shown at the following venues:
Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, 1967.4.11-23
Meitetsu Department Store, Nagoya, 1967.11
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