# Tobacco Pouch and Pipe

**Kubo Shunman** (Japanese, 1757–1820)  
1813  
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper  
7 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (20 x 18.1 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP1954. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54523).

## About this work

Kubo Shunman designed this in 1813, aged 56. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Surimono.** Privately commissioned Japanese prints, often New Year greetings, made in small runs on thick paper with metallic pigments and blind embossing, and usually paired with poems.
- **Colour woodblock print.** In Japan these were a team effort. The artist drew the design, a carver cut it into cherry-wood blocks, one block for each colour, and a printer brushed on the pigment and rubbed each sheet by hand. Full-colour prints of this kind were called nishiki-e, “brocade pictures”, from the 1760s on.

### [Kubo Shunman](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/kubo-shunman)

Japanese, 1757–1820

Shunman was both an artist and a writer of kyōka, or comic verse, and much of his work served the poetry circles of Edo. Their members commissioned surimono, privately issued woodblock sheets pairing poems with images and often finished with metallic pigments and embossing. Shunman excelled at quiet still lifes of objects such as writing sets, tobacco pouches and incense utensils, and he also illustrated books of verse.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Prints
- Culture: Japan
- The artist was 56
- Real size: about 8 × 7 in (20 × 18 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Ukiyo-e](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/ukiyo-e)
- Subjects: Pipes
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

- Free download, full resolution: https://img.ochreeditions.com/m/931.jpg?dl=1
- Image: https://img.ochreeditions.com/a/931/1920.jpg
- Giclée reproduction on Hahnemühle Photo Rag: 8 × 10 in $28; 11 × 14 in $38; 12 × 16 in $42; 16 × 20 in $56; 18 × 24 in $68; 20 × 30 in $86; 24 × 36 in $108
- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164; 20 × 30 in $208; 24 × 36 in $258
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98; 18 × 24 in $118; 20 × 30 in $148
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3; 20 × 30 in $5; 24 × 36 in $5

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/tobacco-pouch-and-pipe-met-54523).