KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI: kakuban (19.4 x 17.6 cm.); Awabi "The abalone or ear shell", depicting two women and a man hanging thin strips of abalone over a pole, on the right is the thatched roof of a house behind a moss covered boulder, accompanied by poems by Gekka Nagame, Yamamichi Nyuime, Kado Marume, Kanninsha Nijinari and Shuchodo Monoyana, from the series Genroku kasen kai awase "A matching game with Genroku poem shells", signed Getchi rojin Iitsu hitsu (signature worn) -- very good impression and color, very slightly trimmed, otherwise good condition