Plover shells, raw mussel and brocade shell Chidorigai namakaki nishikigai (title on object) A series of shells (series title) Kaitsukushi (series title on object), A large mussel, a gray pecten and five smaller ones shells. With three poems, one poem is about weaving brocade, as in the name of the brocade shell: Even the children of the divers weave on the beach, combing the sand together to collect brocade shells, molluscs (shell, snail-shell etc.), Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), Japan, 1821, paper, colour woodcut, h 204 mm ⊙ w 174 mm.