- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1933.4.1936
- People
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Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, Japanese (1780-1850)
- Title
- Flower Shells (Hanagai), Ark Shells (Akagai) and Squirting Shells (Shiofukigai), from the series A Set of Shells (Kaizukushi)
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- print, surimono
- Date
- 1821
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/207246
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigment on paper
- Dimensions
- 21 x 18.5 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: (printed) Motome ni ōji Hokkei utsusu
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel
- Accession Year
- 1933
- Object Number
- 1933.4.1936
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Theodore Robert Bowie and James T. Kenney, Art of the Surimono, exh. cat., Indiana University Art Museum (Bloomington, IN, 1979), Cat. No. 053 / p. 93
Edythe Polster and Alfred H. Marks, Surimono: Prints by Elbow, Lovejoy Press (Washington D.C., 1980), p. 203
Marie Culver, "Surimono Analysis of Metals and Examination of Techniques Used in Japanese Prints" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, May 1984), Unpublished, pp. 1-30 passim
- Exhibition History
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Japan on Paper, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/25/2019 - 08/11/2019
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