Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3: Swallows and Peonies, 摺物帖　『春雨集』　『花鳥六番之内　下野宇都宮』　牡丹に燕, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1820, Japan, Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper, 8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in. (21 x 17. 9 cm), Prints, Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771?1844), 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