Spring — ？春

Spring — rendered in Japanese as 春 with a preceding question mark suggesting uncertainty about this reading — is one of Fujita's most direct seasonal subjects. Spring in his abstract woodblock language means fresh greens, the softness of new growth, the particular quality of spring light filtering through just-opened leaves. The question mark in the title notation hints at some curatorial uncertainty about whether this print specifically depicts spring or whether "spring" was tentatively assigned as a subject description.