About This Artwork

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760–1849

Freshly-picked Flowers in a Traveler’s Hat, illustration for The Thousand-grasses Shell (Chigusagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)", 1821

Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
20.0 x 17.9 cm
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1936.279