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Bamboo screen shell
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Bamboo screen shell

Katsushika Hokusai · 1821 · color woodcut; Japanese paper (handmade paper)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Three women making bamboo screens (sudare). One woman sorts the bamboo slats, another assembles the screen and the third woman sews a fabric hem around it. With two poems. The shell to which the title refers is depicted in the fan-shaped cartouche.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
surimono
Credit lineBamboescherm schelp. 1821. Katsushika Hokusai. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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