Katakuriso Nirenso & Sobinbai

This composition gathers three spring wildflowers within a single plate. Katakuriso — Erythronium japonicum, the Japanese dogtooth violet — produces solitary nodding pink-purple flowers with strongly recurved tepals above mottled basal leaves, blooming briefly in deciduous woodland before the tree canopy closes. Nirinso — Anemone flaccida — bears its small white flowers in characteristic pairs (the name means two-flowered grass) on slender stems above deeply divided leaves. Sobinbai is a named plum variety, completing a grouping of early-spring subjects. Multi-species compositions like this depart from the one-species-per-plate convention of Ikeda's numbered sequence and demand careful tonal balancing so no single subject dominates: the printer must hold pinks, whites, and the green of foliage in disciplined relation across a shared ground. Such groupings draw on the honzo herbal-illustration tradition as much as on classical kacho-e, situating Ikeda's work at the intersection of botanical documentation and decorative printmaking characteristic of late shin-hanga production.