Preparations for the New Year, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, vol. 1), 元日仕度, Edo period (1615–1868), 1817, Japan, Privately published polychrome woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (21 x 18.4 cm), Prints, Totoya Hokkei (Japanese, 1780–1850), 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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