1933.4.1759: Recycling Paper/The Fulling Block Shell (Kinutagai), from the series "Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets" (Genroku kasen kai-awase)
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1759
- People
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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
- 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/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
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- Signed: (printed) Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu
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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
- Permissions
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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
Verification Level
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