『春雨集』　摺物帖, Edo period (1615?1868), early to mid-1810s, Japan, Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (20 x 18. 1 cm), Prints, Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757?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 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