About This Artwork

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760–1849

Chopping Rice Cakes, illustration for The Board-Roof Shell (Itayagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)", 1821

Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
19.5 x 17.8 cm
Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus, 1954.612




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