# Cherry Shell, from the series Genroku Poetry Shell Games, in The Floating World

Katsushika Hokusai designed this (probably 1821), aged 61. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: probably 1821
- Medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 7 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. (19.7 x 17.5 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2578
- 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.

## Walk on

- [More by Katsushika Hokusai](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/katsushika-hokusai?hang=749) (20 works)
- [More prints of the 19th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/print-19?hang=749) (159 works)
- [19th-century Japan](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-japan?hang=749) (99 works)

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