Artist: Oishi Matora
Title: Courtesan reading
Date: Meiji Copy C
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Robyn Buntin of Honolulu
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Description:
Original surimono were often commissioned by poetry circles and privately published. Surimono represent the peak in Japanese woodblock printing techniques. Their costly production resulted in very limited editions of a handful of impressions of each design only. Most copies of surimono were published at the end of the ninetenth or the beginning of the twentieth-century. The majority of then were based on surimono in the square format that had been published in the city of Edo (modern Tokyo) in the 1810 and 1820s. The ground-breaking publication of Roger Keyes, THE ART OF THE SURIMONO, provided an effective categorization of these surimono copies. This is a Group C copy, probably published for foreigners,and copied from Group B copies which were copied from Group A copies which were copied from originals.
