About This Artwork

Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760–1849

Koto and New Year’s Offering, illustration for The Akoya Beach Shell (Akoyagai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)", 1821

Color woodblock print; nishikie with metallic pigments and blindprinting; surimono shikishiban
20.9 x 17.8 cm
Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus, 1954.615