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Katsushika Hokusai

Frogs in a Cage Before a Painted Screen, illustration for The Dry-Shallows Shell (Minasegai), from the series "A Matching Game with Genroku-period Poem Shells (Genroku kasen kai awase)"

1821
Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban
19.9 × 17.9 cm (7.8 × 7 in)

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