1933.4.1770: The Dry-Shallows Shell (Minasegai), from the series The Poetry-Shell Matching Game of the Genroku Era (Genroku kasen kai awase)
PrintsThe scenic Japanese screen depicts four people in a landscape, one on a horse on the left, the three others stand by the side, all wear small black hats and robes amongst a green hilly landscape. On the lower right, a floor case is enclosed with chicken wire, inside are two rocks and plant material. Three small books rest on the floor, the top one is splayed open with a bookmark. Vertical calligraphy lines are written across the top half, with a red seal on right and small opened fan-shape below it.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1770
- People
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Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Japanese (1760 - 1849)
- Title
- The Dry-Shallows Shell (Minasegai), from the series The Poetry-Shell Matching Game of the Genroku Era (Genroku kasen kai awase)
- 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/207996
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper
- Dimensions
- Shikishiban: H. 19.9 cm x 17.9 cm (7 13/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Getchi rōjin Iitsu hitsu
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inscription: Yamabuki ni koe aru mizu no tamagashiwa korogashi idete kawazu nakunari (There are voices in the yamabuki flowers; boulder in the water tumbles over and frogs cry out) - Tsuru [no] Hinako
Mimachi kara nagusami gatera sebumi shite kasumi no umi ni hitoni asoban (Waiting for the snake: to beguile the time, I wade through the shallows of the sea of mist and enjoy the day) - Yomo Utagaki Magao
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
- 1933.4.1770
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Commissioned by the Yomogawa poetry group.
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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