『名物革仝印籠仝根付』 印籠根付, Edo period (1615?1868), 1810s, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono) ; ink and color on paper, 5 7/16 x 7 1/4 in. (13. 8 x 18. 4 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