柳々居辰斎画 子春 嫁入の具, Edo period (1615–1868), probably 1816 (Year of the Rat), Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 5 1/2 x 7 7/16 in. (14 x 18.9 cm), Prints, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai (Japanese, active ca. 1799–1823), 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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柳々居辰斎画 子春 嫁入の具, Edo period, 1615–1868, 1816, Year, Rat, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print, surimono, ink, color, paper, 5 1/2 x 7 7/16, 14 18.9 cm, Prints, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, Japanese, active ca., 1799–1823, Surimono, privately published woodblock, prints, usually commissioned, individual poets, poetry groups, form, New Year, greeting, card, poems, commonly kyōka, witty thirty, syllable verse, inscribed, prints usually, include, felicitous, imagery, connected, spring, lunar calendar, begins, first day month
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