印籠と牛根付, Edo period (1615–1868), probably 1817, Japan, Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper, 5 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (13.3 x 18.7 cm), Prints, Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850), 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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