Courtier Playing a Flute to Accompany a Bugaku Dance, 舞楽, Edo period (1615?1868), probably 1810, Japan, Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono) ; ink and color on paper, 5 1/2 x 8 3/16 in. (14 x 20. 8 cm), Prints, Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757?1820), The design of this surimono, a sumptuous print, commissioned by one of the poetry clubs that flourished in the urban society of early-nineteenth-century Edo, uses the accoutrements of a Bugaku performance as auspicious imagery for a New Year's greeting