Pipe and Tobacco PouchFrom the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1
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. Themes of surimono are often erudite, frequently alluding to Japanese literary classics in both texts and images.
This album forms part of a set of three containing more than four hundred surimono. The prints are arranged on facing leaves according to themes or in a way that creates an attractive arrangement of designs, complementary in both color and shape. The printing techniques, pigments, and paper used for surimono were often the highest quality, and represent the epitome of late Edo-period woodblock printing.
This album forms part of a set of three containing more than four hundred surimono. The prints are arranged on facing leaves according to themes or in a way that creates an attractive arrangement of designs, complementary in both color and shape. The printing techniques, pigments, and paper used for surimono were often the highest quality, and represent the epitome of late Edo-period woodblock printing.
Artwork Details
- 窪俊満画 煙草入れ袋と煙管『春雨集』 摺物帖
- Title: Pipe and Tobacco PouchFrom the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1
- Artist: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)
- Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: ca. 1810s
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 5 9/16 x 7 1/8 in. (14.1 x 18.1 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
- Object Number: JP1907
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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