Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shu), vol. 3: Mountain Dove and Peach Flowers. Artist: Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771-1844). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 7 7/16 in. (21 x 18.9 cm). Date: ca. 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 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.All four compositions on these leaves (JP2362-2365) come from the same set of prints, Six Bird-and-flower Prints for Utsunomiya in Shimotsuke Province (Kacho rokuban no uchi, Shimotsuke Utsunomiya). The series was commissioned by a branch of the Asakusa kyoka poetry group based in the city of Utsunomiya, north of

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Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shu), vol. 3: Mountain Dove and Peach Flowers. Artist: Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771-1844). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 7 7/16 in. (21 x 18.9 cm). Date: ca. 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 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.All four compositions on these leaves (JP2362-2365) come from the same set of prints, Six Bird-and-flower Prints for Utsunomiya in Shimotsuke Province (Kacho rokuban no uchi, Shimotsuke Utsunomiya). The series was commissioned by a branch of the Asakusa kyoka poetry group based in the city of Utsunomiya, north of

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