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Image Not Available for Kinutagai (The fulling-block shell)
Kinutagai (The fulling-block shell)
Image Not Available for Kinutagai (The fulling-block shell)

Kinutagai (The fulling-block shell)

Date1821
Maker Katsushika Hokusai Japanese, 1760 - 1849
Label TextThis print is one of thirty-six in Hokusai’s surimono (printed things) series commissioned by the Yomogawa poetry club in 1821. The poems on these prints are from the anthology Shell-Matching Game with Genroku-era Poets, published in 1689. In this print, two women are pounding used paper into pulp to make recycled paper; behind them a boy stirs the pulp in a bamboo basket in a stream. Sheets of paper on drying boards are seen at the left. The print’s upper portion includes two poems that resonate with the images below.
Object number2014.19.1
ProvenancePrivate collection, New York; [Sebastian Izzard, New York, New York, by 2014]
Photo CreditImage supplied by gallery
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view Nov. 5 - Dec. 12, 2021].
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Asian Art Council
Dimensions7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (20 x 18.1 cm)
MediumColor woodblock print; shikishiban surimono
Photo: William Wickett
South Wind, Clear Dawn (Gaifu kaisei), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.15
Image Not Available for Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Tago Beach near Eijiri on the Tokaido Highway, Simplified View (Tokaido Eijiri tago-no-ura ryakuzu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-33
Object number: 2010.47.2
Image Not Available for Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Rainstorm beneath the Summit (Sanka haku-u), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.47.3
Image Not Available for The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
The Poem of Sangi Hitoshi (Minamoto no Hitoshi), from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.4
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
The Poem of Ariwara no Narihira (Ariwara no Narihira Ason)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.5
Image Not Available for The Poem of Ono no Komachi, from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse
The Poem of Ono no Komachi, from the series One Hundred Poets, One Verse Each, as Told by the Nurse
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1838
Object number: 2010.47.6
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
In the Well of the Wave off Kanagawa, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
1830-32
Object number: 2009.71
Photo: Colleen Kollar Zorn
Yoshida on the Tōkaidō, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.47.1
Landscape; Thatched roofs, terraced hills
Landscape; Thatched roofs, terraced hills
Katsushika Hokusai
1760-1849
Object number: 49.53
Sawing Wood Planks
Sawing Wood Planks
Katsushika Hokusai
1760-1849
Object number: 49.54
Photo: Susan A. Cole
Five Beautiful Women
Katsushika Hokusai
1804 - 1818
Object number: 56.246
Lo-Chishin Fighting the Snake (Illustration from Suikoden)
Lo-Chishin Fighting the Snake (Illustration from Suikoden)
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1815-49
Object number: 39.163