Advanced Search 
「元禄歌仙貝合 ますほ貝」
The Pure Red Shell (Masuho-gai), from the series A Matching Game with the Genroku Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)
「元禄歌仙貝合 ますほ貝」
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
1821 (Bunsei 4)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 20 x 17.8 cm (7 7/8 x 7 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number37.335
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Hokusai (2013), #127; Graybill et al, The Artist's Touch... (Portland Art Museum cat., 2011), p. 208, #87; Calza, Hokusai (2003), V.7.5; Mirviss w/ Carpenter, Jewels of Japanese Printmaking (2000), #8; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 243
DescriptionPoems translated in Graybill et al. 2011, p. 208, and Mirviss w/ Carpenter 2000, p. 54.
Signed
Getchi rôjin Iitsu hitsu
月癖老人為一筆
月癖老人為一筆
InscriptionsPoem by Kajuan Fukumaro: Masuho-gai/ kai aru haru o/ suehiro ni/ ôkite mederu/ Musashino no Fuji
Poem by Shûchôdô Monoyama: Masuo to mo/ masura to mo mada/ wakakusa o/ kasumi no sode ni/ tsutsumu Musashino
ますほ貝 かひある春を 末広に あふきて愛る むさし野の富士 鹿寿庵蝠麿
ますほとも ますらともまた ワか草を 霞の袖に つゝむむさし野 秋長堂物簗
Poem by Shûchôdô Monoyama: Masuo to mo/ masura to mo mada/ wakakusa o/ kasumi no sode ni/ tsutsumu Musashino
ますほ貝 かひある春を 末広に あふきて愛る むさし野の富士 鹿寿庵蝠麿
ますほとも ますらともまた ワか草を 霞の袖に つゝむむさし野 秋長堂物簗
Provenance1937, acquired from the Fogg Museum in exchange for 17.1454. (Accession Date: April 1, 1937)