1933.4.1767: Scented Pillow, Pickled Eggplant Box and Takarabune Print/The Pillow Shell (Makuragai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase)
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1767
- People
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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
- Title
- Scented Pillow, Pickled Eggplant Box and Takarabune Print/The Pillow Shell (Makuragai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase)
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Genroku kasen kai-awase: Makuragai
- 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/207994
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color and metallic pigment on paper, with printed signature reading "Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu"
- Dimensions
- Paper: H. 20.6 cm x W. 18.4 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: (printed) Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu
- inscription: (Poems by Mama Kawanami and Shōjuan)
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
- 1933.4.1767
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Matthi Forrer, Hokusai, Prestel Verlag (New York, NY; Munich, Germany, 2010), pp. 178-179, fig. 146
Verification Level
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