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)"

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Katsushika Hokusai

Title

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)"

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

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1816–1833

Medium

Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban

Dimensions

19.5 × 17.8 cm (7 11/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus

Reference Number

1954.612

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