Two Women Making Rice Candy at New Years/The Board Roof Shell (Itayagai), from the series Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets (Genroku kasen kai-awase)

1760 - 1849

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Japanese

Ukiyo-e woodblock-printed "surimono" in "shikishiban" format; ink, color and metallic pigments on paper, with printed signature reading "Getchi Rōjin I-itsu hitsu"

Edo period, 1615-1868