About This Artwork

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760–1849

Frogs in a Cage Before a Painted Screen, illustration for The Dry-Shallows Shell (Minasegai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)", 1821

Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
19.9 x 17.9 cm
Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1925.2926