This first is from the Edo period (1615-1868), ink and colors on paper, titled Mukan taifu Atsumori the famed warrior Atsumori is featured in this surimono print, a print made to celebrate a special occasion, and a poem is written in the top left corner above this fierce warrior with sword drawn as he reads on a animated horse, below the horse is the artist's signature together with censor seal and publisher's seal, and the second from the 20th century in a vertical format with a woman carrying hay over a stream with the sun setting in the background and geese flying above, signed together with a red artist's seal to lower left, both prints are framed with double mats under glass, not examined outside of the frame.

DOA 19.75 x 15 in., 24 x 12.5 in.

From the Collection of Patricia H. Jardine, Chatham County, NC

Surimono print has paper added with seams on left and bottom edges; some wormholes; fading to color; wear and rubbing to paper.