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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1935
People
Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Japanese (1780-1850)
Title
Wasuregai, Baikagai and Sakuragai Shells, from the series A Set of Shells (Kaizukushi)
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Kaizukushi: Wasuregai, Baikagai, Sakuragai
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
Edo period, 1821
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207245

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishi" format; ink, light color, metallic pigment and mica on paper with printed signature reading "Motome ni ōji Hokkei utsusu"
Dimensions
Paper: H. 21.3 cm x W. 18.5 cm (8 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: (printed) Motome ni ōji Hokkei utsusu

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
1933.4.1935
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 203
  • Marie Culver, "Surimono Analysis of Metals and Examination of Techniques Used in Japanese Prints" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1984), Unpublished, pp. 1-30 passim

Verification Level

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