胴乱印籠と懐中時計根付, probably 1817, Japan, Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper, 5 9/16 x 7 1/4 in

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胴乱印籠と懐中時計根付, probably 1817, Japan, Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper, 5 9/16 x 7 1/4 in. ( x cm), Prints, Hokusen Taigaku (Japanese, active 1805–1825), 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

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