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Plum Blossom and Green Willow

Japanese Poetry Prints from the Ashmolean Museum


  • ACC Distributed publishers
  • by Clare Pollard, Kiyoko Hanaoka
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.

ISBN 9781910807262 | E | PB
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Publisher ACC Distributed publishers
ISBN 9781910807262
Author(s) Clare Pollard, Kiyoko Hanaoka
Publication date October 2018
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 267 x 194 mm
Illustrations 80 col.ill. | 5 bw.ill.
Pages 160
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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collection of surimono, mostly from the Jennings-Spalding Gift and containing a number of rare and previously unpublished prints, has ever been catalogued.