HOKKEI: kakuban surimono (21.5 x 18.4cm.); bird perched on a mortar and pestle, from the series sanjurokutoritsukushi "A collection of thrity-six birds", a set designed for the Shipporen poetry circle, signed Hokkei, poems by Ifukutei Sodenari and Fukufukutei Kanenari--very good impression,good color, brass embellishments and gauffrage, light soil toward bottom edges