SURIMONO POETRY IMAGE IN JAPANESE PRINT: Poetry & Image in Japanese Prints - Tapa blanda

Surimono (lit. `printed object') are privately published prints inscribed with a dedication or poem that reflects upon everyday themes. This catalogue includes more than 150 illustrations of prints drawn from the splendid Amsterdam Rijksmuseum collection. It also contains in-depth essays discussing the history of surimono and the subjects depicted in the prints, which incorporate seasonal references and classical themes. Most of the poems on the selected prints have been translated into English. This publication is an important reference work in the study of surimono.

Charlotte van Rappard-Boon compiled the 5-volume catalogue of Japanese prints in the Rijksmuseum collection and has contributed widely to exhibition catalogues in the field. Lee Bruschke-Johnson studied at the Universities of Leiden, Kyoto, Kansas and Delaware. She formerly worked in the curatorial departments of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries in Washington DC, and Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland and as a consultant for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. In 2002 she successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled The Calligrapher Konoe Nobutada: Reassessing the Influence of Aristocrats on the Art and Politics of Early Seventeenth-Century Japan. Dr. Bruschke-Johnson currently works as independent scholar in the Netherlands.