Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints

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Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints
Surimono: Privately Published Japanese Prints
Roger Keyes, curator
White Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Surimono prints were often commissioned by poetry groups and designed both by leading ukiyo-e artists and by amateurs, to be given to friends as New Year's greetings and announcements of special events. In delightful essays on sixty prints, Roger Keynes, guest curator, draws upon his extensive familiarity with history and legends, language and literature, customs and culture, to reveal the fascination of a forgotten art. The catalogue of the exhibition includes a complete catalogue of the collection of prints at the Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas) with 60 color plates, 186 black and white reproductions, brief entries on 268 images and a comprehensive bibliography.

Surimono, the most elegant woodblock prints ever made, were sent as New Year's greetings in 19th century Japan. These were selected from the Museum's collection of 268 images.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Katsushika Hokusai
1821, Edo period (1600–1868)
Toyohisa II
1830, 9th month, Edo period (1600–1868)
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
1813, Edo period (1600–1868)
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
1819, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yokoyama Kazan
early 1890s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yashima Gakutei
1820s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Hiroshige
late 1830 or early 1840s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
1820, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
circa 1825–1835, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
circa 1800–1805, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
circa 1823, Edo period (1600–1868)
Kubo Shumman
circa 1800, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
1832, Edo period (1600–1868)
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
circa late 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
1820, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
1820s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
1823, Edo period (1600–1868)
Keisai Eisen
1828, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
1825, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
circa 1820s–1830s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yanagawa Shigenobu
early 1820s, Edo period (1600–1868)
1821?, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
1813, Edo period (1600–1868)
Teisai Hokuba
circa late 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yanagawa Shigenobu
1826, Edo period (1600–1868)
Suzuki Nanrei
1813, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
circa 1805, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
1820, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
circa late 1790s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
1823, Edo period (1600–1868)
Keisai Eisen
1823, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yoshimi Shūri
circa late 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Hishikawa Sōri
circa 1805, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yashima Gakutei
circa late 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Sadakage I
1832, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
1811, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
1827, Edo period (1600–1868)
Kubo Shumman
1814, Edo period (1600–1868)
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
circa late 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
mid 1830s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
circa mid 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Kubo Shumman
circa mid 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Nagayama Kōin
early 1820s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
circa mid 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
1799, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yashima Gakutei
circa late 1820s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsukawa Shun'ei
late 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
1811, Edo period (1600–1868)
Keisai Eisen
1826, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
1827, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
1823, Edo period (1600–1868)
Asayama Ashikuni, Nakamura Utaemon III
1817, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yokoyama Kazan
1829, Edo period (1600–1868)
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
1818, Edo period (1600–1868)
Katsushika Hokusai
1823, Edo period (1600–1868)
Yashima Gakutei
circa 1820, Edo period (1600–1868)
Kita Busei, Tatekawa Emba II
1831, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
circa 1820, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
1821 or 1822, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
1823, Edo period (1600–1868)
Hishikawa Sōri
circa 1800–1805, Edo period (1600–1868)
Ryūryūkyo Shinsai
circa late 1810s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Totoya Hokkei
1820s, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Kunisada
circa 1823, Edo period (1600–1868)
Utagawa Sadakage I
1832, Edo period (1600–1868)