Japanese Poetry Prints

Keisai Eisen: A mother with her two children feeding chickens, 1825

Plum Blossom and Green Willow: Surimono Poetry Prints is an exhibition of nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock poetry prints at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

"This is a strange and lovely show, accompanied by clear labels that usefully explain the context of the genre and teach us how to “read” these rare woodblock prints—to understand the relation of the work to the poems inscribed on the prints and the meaning of the figures shown, with their references to ancient traditions."

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