Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3: Sparrows and Dandelions, 摺物帖 『春雨集』 『花鳥六番之内 下野宇都宮』 タンポポに雀, Edo period (1615–1868), ca. 1820, Japan, Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 8 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. (21.3 x 19.1 cm), Prints, Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771–1844), 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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