About This Artwork

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760–1849

Making Bamboo Blinds, illustration for The Bamboo Blind Shell (Sudare-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)", 1821

Color woodblock print with metallic pigments and blindprinting (as a result of forgetting to ink the group of extra slats of bamboo); surimono
20.0 x 17.5 cm
Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus, 1954.614