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Making Bamboo Blinds, illustration for The Bamboo-Blind Shell (Sudare-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)"
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Making Bamboo Blinds, illustration for The Bamboo-Blind Shell (Sudare-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)"

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 , Japanese, 1760–1849 · 1821 · Color woodblock print with metallic pigments and blindprinting (as a result of forgetting to ink the group of extra slats of bamboo); surimono

From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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woodblock printJapanese (culture or style)printasian art
Credit lineMaking Bamboo Blinds, illustration for The Bamboo-Blind Shell (Sudare-gai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)". 1821. Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 , Japanese, 1760–1849. The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus. CC0.
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