About This Artwork

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760–1849

Recycling Paper, illustration for The Fulling-block Shell (Kinuta 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
20.0 x 17.5 cm
Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus, 1954.613