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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1759
People
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
Title
Recycling Paper/The Fulling Block Shell (Kinutagai), from the series "Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets" (Genroku kasen kai-awase)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Genroku kasen kai-awase: Kinutagai
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
Edo period, datable to 1821
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207993

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed surimono in "shikishi" format; ink, color, metallic pigments, and embossing on paper, with printed signature reading "Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu"
Dimensions
Paper: H. 20.0 cm x W. 17.8 cm (7 7/8 x 7 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu
  • inscription: Uraraka ni kesa shimo haru no kinutagai uchigasumu sode ni niou umegaka (Spring came this morning, all serene; the garment on the pounding block shell, suffused with mist, is fragrant with plum blossoms) - Kōgetsutei Yoshimura
    Shizu ga suku shinagawa nori ya asakusa de shina shimo nitaru kami kinutagai (Common people forn sheets of seaweed at Shinagawa; likewise, at Asakusa, the paper on the pounding block shells) - Chikujuan Naoyoshi (Jirō)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.4.1759
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 109 / pp. 176-177

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