Skylarks and Primroses, from the Series An Array of Birds (Tori awase), from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō

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Skylarks and Primroses, from the Series An Array of Birds (Tori awase), from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, vol. 3), 『鳥合』　桜草に雲雀, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1805–10, Japan, Privately published polychrome woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (21 x cm), Prints, Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820), 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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