Daffodils

This third daffodil print by Nishimura Hodo suggests the artist returned to suisen as a compositional study across multiple editions or variants. Slight differences in viewpoint, flower arrangement, or color key would distinguish it from the other daffodil prints in the series. The narcissus form — with its nodding head, reflexed petals, and central corona — lends itself to varied cropping and arrangement, and a printmaker working in the [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) tradition might explore the subject from a lateral view emphasizing the graceful arch of stems, or from above, foregrounding the circular geometry of the open bloom. Each printing from a separate block set would produce subtly different color saturation and registration, making such variants of interest to collectors tracking the artist's hand across editions.