Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 2: Cut Flowers: Clematis, Bush Clover, Iris, Camellia, and Azalea, 『春雨集』 摺物帖, Edo period (1615–1868), 1815 (Year of the Ox), Japan, Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 8 5/16 x 11 1/16 in. (21.1 x 28.1 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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