# Incense Boxes with a Wrapping Cloth, in Kubo Shunman

Kubo Shunman designed this in 1808, aged 51. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: 1808
- Medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (14 x 19.1 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, JP2113
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[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.

5 works in the collection.

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