Brocade shell Nishikigai (title on object) A comparison of Genroku poems and shells (series title) Genroku kasen kaiawase (series title on object), The village of Mutsuda, famous for its weeping willows, on the banks from the Yoshino river. In the foreground a ferry, in the background a mountain between fog banks. With eight poems. The shell to which the title refers is depicted in the fan-shaped cartouche., Katsushika Hokusai (mentioned on object), Japan, 1821, paper, colour woodcut, h 196 mm × w 178 mm
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