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A surimono is a privately commissioned print used to announce or commemorate a special event.  This picture celebrates an event in the life of the actor Ichikawa Danjuro VII, whose emblem was the peony.  According to Japanese tradition, the peony--one of the flowers of the four seasons--is the flower of summer.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Hokusai" class="extiw" title="w:en:Hokusai"><span title="Japanese artist (1760-1849)">Katsushika Hokusai</span></a>
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1810 or 1814
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