# Grasshopper and Iris, in Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai designed this in the late 1820s, aged about 64. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A grasshopper clings to a stem of iris beneath its blossoms, the sword-like leaves sweeping upward. Hokusai designed a set of smaller flower prints, each pairing a plant with an insect or bird, and they show the same sharp observation and graphic boldness as his landscapes.

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## The work

- Date: late 1820s
- Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Overall: 9 3/4 x 14 3/16in. (24.8 x 36 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP747
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Katsushika Hokusai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/katsushika-hokusai), Japanese, 1760–1849

Hokusai trained in the studio of the actor-portraitist Katsukawa Shunshō and went on to work under more than thirty names across a career of some seventy years.

20 works in the collection.

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