Yashima Gakutei (1786?–1868)

Surimono were privately and expensively commissioned prints printed on slightly thicker presentation paper, which enabled special and more complex printing effects including blind embossing and use of metallic pigments. Yashima Gakutei and Totoya Hokkei were great exponents of this style of print which were often commissioned for poetry gatherings and the New Year.

Other impressions of this design are in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, go to:

https://www.mfa.org/collections/object/library-bunko-from-the-series-seven-pictures-for-the-katsushika-group-katsushika-shichiban-tsuzuki-212903
And:
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/208284