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• Title:Plum blossom & green willow : Japanese surimono poetry prints from the Ashmolean Museum / Kiyoko Hanaoka and Clare Pollard.
  
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• Variant Title:Plum blossom and green willow
  Japanese surimono poetry prints from the Ashmolean Museum
  
• Author/Creator:Pollard, Clare (Moyra Clare), author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Hanaoka, Kiyoko, author.
  Ashmolean Museum, host institution.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford, United Kingdom : Ashmolean Museum, [2018]
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NE1321.85.S87 P65 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Ashmolean Museum--Art collections--Catalogs.
  Surimono--Exhibitions.
  Color prints, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868--Exhibitions.
  Art and literature--Japan--Exhibitions.
  Calligraphy, Japanese--History--Edo period, 1600-1868--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:150 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
  
• Summary:"This book introduces over forty surimono in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum and provides readers with an insight into the refined and cultirvated Japanese literati culture of the early nineteenth century. As well as exploring the customs, legends, figures and objects depicted, it presents new translations of the humorous poems (kyoka) that lie at the heart of surimono, and highlights the intricate relationship that existed between the poetry and accompanying images."--from front cover
  Because money was no object, surimono usually used the finest materials and printing techniques. Most consisted of a picture combined with related poems, and the arrangement of the illustration and the calligraphic text was often very beautifully designed. Exquisite in design and technique and usually small in size, surimono have been described as 'jewels of Japanese printmaking' and have great visual appeal. Despite this, this will be the first time that the Ashmolean's collection of surimono, mostly from the Jennings-Spalding Gift and containing a number of rare and previously unpublished prints, has ever been catalogued.
  
• Notes:"Plum blossom & green willow, Japanese surimono poetry prints from the Ashmolean Museum, 2 October 2018-17 March 2019"--Title page verso.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  In English with some Japanese.
  
• ISBN:1910807265
  9781910807262