Seal-stone and Seal-ink with Peacock Feathers, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō), vol. 1, 印鑑と朱に孔雀羽根, Edo

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Seal-stone and Seal-ink with Peacock Feathers, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō), vol. 1, 印鑑と朱に孔雀羽根, Edo period (1615–1868), probably 1817, Japan, Privately published polychrome woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 7 9/16 x 5 1/8 in. ( x 13 cm), Prints, Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850), 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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