『和歌三神』衣通姫, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1820s, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 8 x 5 3/8

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『和歌三神』衣通姫, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1820s, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 8 x 5 3/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868), 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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