Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | The Reflection Shell (Utsuse-gai) | Edo period, 19th century
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
The Reflection Shell (Utsuse-gai)
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigment and embossing, from the series The Poetry-Shell Matching Game of the Genroku Era (Genroku kasen kai awase), signed Getchi rojin Iitsu hitsu (Brush of the Moonstruck Old Man Iitsu), privately issued by the Four Directions Poetry Circle (Yomogawa-ren) in 1821, poems by Yomo no Utagaki Magao, Toryukan Michimori, Shuchodo Monoyana and Naniwa Shobatei Kiraku; with collector's seal of Gerhard Pulverer to verso
Shikishiban surimono: 20.1 x 17.5 cm., 7⅞ x 6⅞ in.
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Le Coquillage reflet, époque Edo, XIXe siècle
Gerhard Pulverer (b. 1930)
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Hokusai: Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura, 6 October 1999 – 9 January 2000.
Gian Carlo Calza, Hokusai: Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura (Milan, 1999), p. 253, no. V.7.8.
A similar impression of the same surimono is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, accession number 32.623.
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