{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"44615"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of Joanna Haab Schoff, Class of 1955"},"labelText":{"label":"More Information","value":"The formation of Joanna Haab Schoff\u2019s collection of surimono, privately commissioned poetry prints, had its roots in the 1950s when she and her husband, James Stanley Schoff, then serving in the American military, lived in Japan. After returning to the United States, they collected Toulouse-Lautrec prints and were led by the Japanese influence on late nineteenth-century French art to seek out Japanese woodblock prints. The elegance and technical sophistication of surimono, along with the literary wit conveyed, especially appealed to Joanna. In 2006, the Johnson Museum organized an exhibition of the Schoffs\u2019 collection, with an accompanying catalogue by Daniel McKee, Cornell Library curator of Japanese and Korean collections. In 2011 the Schoffs donated a portion of their collection to the Johnson Museum. (\"American Sojourns and the Collecting of Japanese Art,\" curated by Ellen Avril and presented at the Johnson Museum June 25\u2013December 18, 2016)\u2022Tosozake no \t\tWith spiced sake Sono kuchitori wa \t\tAnd a side dish Arinagara \t\tBeside him Kumo wo kasumi ni \tClouds melt into the misty shape Suna hashiri uma\t\tOf a horse running through sand \t\t\t\t\t\u2014Karaito no Yorifusa Oboroyo wa \t\tThe hazy night Aki no tsukige ni \t\tTransformed into a roan Hikikaete \t\t\tRed like the autumn moon Tabako ni fukeru \t\tBlown with tobacco Kirihara no koma\t\tA colt in the foggy fields  \t\t\t\t\t\u2014Tangetsukan Hitoyo akete \t\tFor one night, till dawn Kokoro no koma mo \tMy heart like a colt Isamitsutsu \t\tStirred up and lively Fukeru tabako no \t\tRiding in rings of Wanori wo zo suru \t\tExhaled tobacco \t\t\t\t\t\u2014[Shibanoya] SanyodoHarukaze ni \t\tBlown by the spring wind Fukarete kuruu \t\tThe runaway colt Hanaregoma \t\tGoes crazy Keburi no kusa mo \t\tLooking as though he\u2019d chomped Hamu to koso mire \t\tOn this grass of smoke                                                                                 \u2014Mashiba no YamakageThis scene of a stylishly dressed gentleman with a distinctively individual face, blowing smoke from his tobacco pipe in the shape of a horse for the delight of his female companion, combines two popular legends concerning Taoist immortals. The first reference is to Cho-karo (Zhang Guolao), who was accompanied by a magical horse, which when not required could be folded into a wallet or kept in a gourd, according to different versions of his tale. The second is to Tekkai (Li Tieguai), who had the ability to blow his soul out of his mouth at will, allowing him to travel outside his body.The poems include punning references to horses, such as kuchitori, a horse\u2019s bit, but also a small serving of food, and tsukige, referring to a horse with reddish hair, but also here to the moon of autumn (aki no tsuki), as well as obliquely to the reddish tobacco. These verses also replace tobacco smoke with natural \u201csmoky\u201d imagery: clouds, mist, and fog. The horse emerging from the smoke is drawn with the numerals for the small months of 1798\u20142, 3, 5, 8, 11, and 12."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2011.017.005"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Surimono"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Color woodblock print"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":"2011.017.005_D0611_007"},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Courtesan with a Client Blowing a Horse of Smoke: A Picture Calendar for 1798, Year of the Horse"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Prints"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker / Culture","value":"Kubo Shunman"},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/79623/full"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"202761"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"4 15/16 × 6 13/16 inches (12.5 × 17.3 cm)"}}]}