SOSHUN (early spring)

Soshun — Early Spring — captures the Japanese season's most tentative and hopeful phase, when the first signs of new growth appear against a landscape still dominated by winter's palette. Early spring in Japan carries enormous emotional resonance: the first plum blossoms, the earliest green shoots of bamboo, the progressive warming of days that follows the winter solstice. Fujita's abstract treatment of soshun likely uses pale, fresh greens and the pink-white of first blossoms to suggest the season's character rather than depicting it literally.