Lot 10
10
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI: kakuban (19.7 x 17.7 cm.); Sakuragai "the cherry shell", depicting travellers on the road to the Narita Fudosan shrine at Narita, with horses grazing in the distance, accompanied by poems by Shusetsutei Kuranushi and Shuchodo Monoyana, from the series Genroku kasen kai awase "the shell-matching game with Genroku poets", signed Getchi rojin Iitsu hitsu -- fine impression and color, slightly soiled on the edges, otherwise very good condition

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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI: kakuban (19.7 x 17.7 cm.); Sakuragai "the cherry shell", depicting travellers on the road to the Narita Fudosan shrine at Narita, with horses grazing in the distance, accompanied by poems by Shusetsutei Kuranushi and Shuchodo Monoyana, from the series Genroku kasen kai awase "the shell-matching game with Genroku poets", signed Getchi rojin Iitsu hitsu -- fine impression and color, slightly soiled on the edges, otherwise very good condition

Lot Essay

This series of 36 prints was commissioned from Hokusai by the Yomogawa group of poets in 1821. The subjects vary from still-life to landscapes. For a full discussion of the set see Forrer/Keyes (1979) pp. 35-58