“Spring morning”

A morning scene in spring, likely depicting cherry blossom, fresh foliage, or a townscape under early light — Mibugawa's spring prints commonly pair pale pinks and yellow-greens with a high-key sky pulled in [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) from cool pre-dawn blue into warm daylight. The composition would typically be a quiet lane, station platform, or rural prospect, depopulated and built up in flat colour areas rather than line-dominant [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) keyblock work. Printed on [washi](/glossary/washi) using the [baren](/glossary/baren), with several blocks for separate colour passes, the edition would carry the slight registration looseness that comes from artist-printing rather than studio-printing — a marker of his sōsaku-hanga sympathies even within the Unsōdō publishing context. 'Spring morning' is one of a recurring set of seasonal time-of-day titles in his catalogue (alongside 'Winter days' and similar) and reflects the broader contemporary mokuhanga preference for atmospheric studies over narrative subjects, extending the tradition of Hasui and Yoshida into a softer, more washed-out register.