Kinazuisen No. LVIII

Kinazuisen — yellow narcissus, Narcissus jonquilla and related forms — produces clusters of small fragrant yellow flowers on slender stems above grass-like leaves, blooming from late winter into early spring. As the fifty-eighth print in Ikeda's plant series, this composition would foreground the radial geometry of the six-tepaled flowers, often arranged in nodding clusters that allow several blossoms to be shown from different angles within a single plate. The narcissus's narrow blade-like leaves provide the vertical compositional structure characteristic of bulb-flower [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e), where the printer must hold thin keyblock lines crisp through multiple registered impressions. While the white narcissus (suisen) carries deeper traditional associations in Japanese art — particularly with the New Year and the work of Rinpa-school painters — yellow forms entered the cultivated repertoire later through European introductions, making kinazuisen a comparatively modern addition to the kacho-e vocabulary that Ikeda was working to extend through this numbered survey.