『浅草側いせ暦』 弓道具, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1814, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 8 1/4 x 7


『浅草側いせ暦』 弓道具, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1814, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in. (21 x cm), Prints, Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820) (?), 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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