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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.4.1762
People
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
Title
The Pure Red Shell (Masuho-gai), from the series A Matching Game with the Genroku Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 元禄歌仙貝合　ますほ貝
Classification
Prints
Work Type
surimono, print
Date
1821
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/207925

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper
Dimensions
shikishiban: H. 19.9 × W. 17.8 cm (7 13/16 × 7 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: printed: 月癖老人為一筆 [Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu]

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
1933.4.1762
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. 243

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