Beans for Tossing During Setsubun Exorcism Ceremony, from the series Ise Calendars for the Asakusa Group (Asakusa-gawa Ise goyomi), 『浅草側いせ暦』 節分の悪霊ばらい, Edo period (1615–1868), 1810s, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 8 5/16 x 7 3/8 in. (21.1 x 18.7 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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