1933.4.1774: Artist's Possessions/The White Shell (Shiragai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1933.4.1774

People

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)

Title

Artist's Possessions/The White Shell (Shiragai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase)

Other Titles

Transliterated Title: Genroku kasen kai-awase: Shiragai

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print, surimono

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/207961

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color, metallic pigment, and embossing on paper, with printed signature reading "Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu"

Dimensions

Paper: H. 20.0 cm x W. 17.6 cm (7 7/8 x 6 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: (printed) Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu
• inscription: (Poems by Kinkokuen Mahiro and Manmansai Managa)

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

1933.4.1774

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 239

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