Ono no Tofu Standing on the Bank of a Stream and Watching a Frog Leap to Catch a Willow Branch, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1825, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono) ; ink and color on paper, 8 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (21. 9 x 19. 4 cm), Prints, Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780?1850), Classical subjects, from both literature and history, often attracted the surimono artists. Strolling by a stream, Ono no Tofu (894?964), a court calligrapher, dejectedly thinks about resigning from the court