This print was given to Dave by Shinkichi Numabe, who printed it.

Numabe-san has worked as a printer for most of the contemporary Tokyo publishing houses (Nishinomiya, Doi, Shobido), and for many years now has been the sole printer for the Yoshida family, doing their reprints of Toshi Yoshida and Tsukasa Yoshida work. He has also done printing for overseas designers such as Paul Binnie.

Ito Yuhan (1882-1951), the designer, was a shin-hanga artist most active in the 1930s who produced mainly landscapes. His prints of Miyajima, including this illustration of Itsukushima Shrine, are some of his most well-known compositions. His works show influences from Western watercolour paintings, and many resemble chromolithographic frontispieces of the late 1920s and 1930s. "Misty Moon at Miyajima", which, characteristic of Ito's designs, doesn't use black key-block outlines, was reproduced in a variety of different blue hues posthumously (brown hues are much more prominent in our particular print, however).