Bonsai Plum, Compass, and Pocket Sundial with Design of Calendar, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, vol. 3

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Bonsai Plum, Compass, and Pocket Sundial with Design of Calendar, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, vol. 3), 鉢梅、懐中日時計、羅針盤, Edo period (1615–1868), 1806, Japan, Privately published polychrome woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (14 x cm), Prints, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai (Japanese, active ca. 1799–1823), Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by 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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