{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"44614"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Joanna Haab Schoff, Class of 1955"},"labelText":{"label":"More Information","value":"Designations for the short months of 1798 are cleverly placed on the votive plaques. The first month is represented by pine and bamboo, the fourth by the open-mouthed cuckoo, the sixth by the numeral six, the seventh by a mulberry leaf (suggesting the 7/7 Tanabata festival), the ninth by chrysanthemums, and the tenth by the word shigure, meaning the rains of early winter. The \u201cshortness\u201d of the woman who wants to tie her New Year wish to a plum branch on the shrine grounds implies that these are the small (short) months of the year, as indeed they are for 1798, a horse year, which may also be suggested by the woman being lifted by the man, much as she might be if climbing onto a horse. The work has been attributed to Hokusai, one of the most prolific designers of calendar prints and surimono in this period, but a slight stiffness of the figures suggests that Hokusai\u2019s pupil, Sori III, could equally have been the designer of this anonymous work."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2011.017.004"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Surimono"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Color woodblock print"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":"2011.017.004_D0611_006"},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Couple by a Shrine with Votive Plaques: A Picture Calendar for 1798, Year of the Horse"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Prints"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker / Culture","value":"Katsushika Hokusai"},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/79622/full"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1864"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"207094"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"4 11/16 × 3 9/16 inches (11.9 × 9 cm)"}}]}