Japan: 'Portraits and Poems of the Thirty-six Poetic Immortals'. Album of thirty-six paintings and poems by Sumiyoshi Gukei (1631-1705).

Sumiyoshi Gukei (1631 - April 23; 1705); born Sumiyoshi Hirozumi; was a Japanese painter from Kyoto. He became the first official painter of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate; and was a Yamato-e artist; a painting technique based on traditional Japanese subjects and culture.