Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Plum Tree in Bloom ca. 1805–10 Ryūryūkyo Shinsai Japanese Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by individual poets or poetry groups as a form of New Year’s greeting card. The poems, most commonly kyōka (witty thirty-one syllable verse), inscribed on the prints usually include felicitous imagery connected with spring, which in the lunar calendar begins on the first day of the first month. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and blossoming
Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Plum Tree in Bloom ca. 1805–10 Ryūryūkyo Shinsai Japanese Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by individual poets or poetry groups as a form of New Year’s greeting card. The poems, most commonly kyōka (witty thirty-one syllable verse), inscribed on the prints usually include felicitous imagery connected with spring, which in the lunar calendar begins on the first day of the first month. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and blossoming of the plum tree was a harbinger of spring, the beginning of the New Year in the lunar Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Plum Tree in Bloom 54804
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