Daffodil

Daffodils (suisen) rendered in Hodo's decorative woodblock style — the winter-blooming flower associated with the arrival of the new year and with the understated elegance of the Japanese winter garden. Unlike the showy spring flowers that followed, the daffodil's modest scale and restrained palette — white petals, yellow trumpet — embodied the Japanese aesthetic preference for quiet beauty over ostentation. Hodo's treatment captures the flowers in their characteristic nodding posture, the stems arching gracefully under the blooms' weight.