「一陽連文房四友 硯 伯英」, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1827, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono) ; ink and color on paper, 8 x 7 1/8 in. (20. 3 x 18. 1 cm), Prints, Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786? ?1868), Surimono are privately published woodblock prints, usually commissioned by individual poets or poetry groups s 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