Lost-love shell (Katashigai)
Katsushika Hokusai
Japan
1760 – 1849
Lost-love shell (Katashigai)
from the series A shell-matching game with Genroku thirty-six linked verses (Genroku kasen kai-awase)
1821
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Japan
1760 – 1849
Lost-love shell (Katashigai)
from the series A shell-matching game with Genroku thirty-six linked verses (Genroku kasen kai-awase)
1821
woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
Currently on display, Gallery 19
- Place made
- Edo (Tokyo)
- Medium
- woodblock print, ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 19.0 x 17.8 cm (image & sheet)
- Credit line
- Gift of Brian and Barbara Crisp in memory of their son Andrew 2005
- Accession number
- 20054G39
- Signature and date
- Signed, printed in block, l.r. "Getchirojin Iitsu hitsu (the old man mad about the moon, one year old again)". Not dated.
- Media category
- Collection area
- Asian art - Japan
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Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849woodblock print, ink and colour on paperAccession no: 20054G39On display, Gallery 19
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Katsushika Hokusai 1760 – 1849woodblock print, ink and colour on paperAccession no: 20054G40On display, Gallery 19