Original Surimono woodblock print by Shunseikyo Baigai (act. 1860s) - "Sheet from Hazukishu" - Japan - 1867 Sheet from the Album "Hazukishu" (an Anthology for the First Month of the Year). (Preface by Harunoya shujin Ikuhisa) (Postscript by the artist Shunseikyo Baigai, dated 2/1867) The album was published as a memorial for Hagetsutei Kasetsu, a poet who died in 1865. The illustration may be a record of pictures that he personally owned. The group of pictures of a variety of subjects in several pictorial styles, eaqch within in an irregular border. A number of pictures combined on one sheet, in this case 4. All pictures signed, and with a red seal, not translated. On a Japanese washi paper, in good condition. Colors in very good condition. Mounted on old japanese album backing. Size is 18.5x 24.2cm. Listed in Kokusho, National Book Database, under number 200016990. see: https://kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/200016990/ Shunseikyo Baigai's "Hazukishu" is mentioned in Keyes "Surimono" (as Tangetsushu), with example of other sheet, as part of the Album "Tangetsushu" in the Chester Beatty Library. See page 461. Will be sent acid-free protected, under heavy card-boards, fully insured.