Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Genroku-style Courtesan probably 1810s Utagawa Kuninao Japanese Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by individual poets or poetry groups as a form of New Years 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. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images.Though this print was created in the early nineteenth century, the artist has depicted a courtesan wearing styles popular a century before. The text above is a song by Ōishi Yoshio (Kuranosuke) extolling the beauty of courtesans of the pleasure quarters.. Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Genroku-style Courtesan 54807

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Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Genroku-style Courtesan probably 1810s Utagawa Kuninao Japanese Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by individual poets or poetry groups as a form of New Years 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. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images.Though this print was created in the early nineteenth century, the artist has depicted a courtesan wearing styles popular a century before. The text above is a song by Ōishi Yoshio (Kuranosuke) extolling the beauty of courtesans of the pleasure quarters.. Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Genroku-style Courtesan 54807

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