鶏図衝立を見る鶏, Cock Eyeing a Free-standing Screen Painted with Cock, Hen, and Chicks, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō), vol. 1, Edo period (1615?1868), probably 1813, Japan, Privately published polychrome woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 7 11/16 x 10 7/8 in. (19. 5 x 27. 6 cm), Prints, Yanagawa Shigenobu (Japanese, 1787?1832), Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by 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