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窪俊満画 煙草入れ袋と煙管『春雨集』 摺物帖

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. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images.

This album forms part of a set of three containing more than four hundred surimono. The prints are arranged on facing leaves according to themes or in a way that creates an attractive arrangement of designs, complementar...

c. 1810s
Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
14.1 x 18.1cm
JP1907
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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