Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: “Books from Kanazawa Library” (Kanazawa Bunko) and “Foreign Cat of Shōmyōji Temple” (Shōmyōji no kara neko), from the series History of Kamakura (Kamakura shi), Edo period (1615–1868), early to mid-1810s, Japan, Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 7 11/16 x 7 3/16 in. (19.5 x 18.3 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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