About This Artwork

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760–1849

Village on the Yoshino River, illustration for The Brocade Shell (Nishiki-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)", 1821

Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
20.5 x 17.8 cm
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1925.2925