『春雨集』　摺物帖, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1805–10, Japan, Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink

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『春雨集』　摺物帖, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1805–10, Japan, Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 5 1/2 x 7 7/16 in. (14 x cm), Prints, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai (Japanese, active ca. 1799–1823), 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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