The Chinese Calligrapher Boying (Japanese: Hakuei; also known as the "Sage of Cursive Script"); "Inkstone" (Suzuri), from Four Friends of the Writing Table for the Ichiyo Poetry Circle (Ichiyo-ren Bunbo shiyu) From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shu), vol. 1. Artist: Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786-1868). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 8 x 7 1/8 in. (20.3 x 18.1 cm). Date: ca. 1827.Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by individual poets or poetry groups s a form of New Year's greeting card. The poems, most commonly kyoka (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. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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The Chinese Calligrapher Boying (Japanese: Hakuei; also known as the "Sage of Cursive Script"); "Inkstone" (Suzuri), from Four Friends of the Writing Table for the Ichiyo Poetry Circle (Ichiyo-ren Bunbo shiyu) From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shu), vol. 1. Artist: Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786-1868). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 8 x 7 1/8 in. (20.3 x 18.1 cm). Date: ca. 1827.Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by individual poets or poetry groups s a form of New Year's greeting card. The poems, most commonly kyoka (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. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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