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The Dry-Shallows Shell (Minasegai), from the series The Poetry-Shell Matching Game of the Genroku Era (Genroku kasen kai awase)

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Commissioned by the Yomogawa poetry group.

Department of Asian Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (Artist)

1821 19th century Edo period 1615-1868

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Title: The Dry-Shallows Shell (Minasegai), from the series The Poetry-Shell Matching Game of the Genroku Era (Genroku kasen kai awase)

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Commissioned by the Yomogawa poetry group.

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