Spring in Sanroku — 山麓の春

Spring in Sanroku (山麓の春, Sanroku no haru) is a Kasamatsu Mihoko F12 woodblock landscape catalogued by [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org through a participating dealer. The title sanroku (山麓) refers to the foot or base of a mountain, the cultivated zone where rice paddies, villages, and orchards spread outward from the steeper forested slopes. In Japanese landscape painting and printmaking, sanroku is the classic transitional ground: neither the towering pictorial drama of the high peaks nor the urban world of the plain, but the inhabited rural slope where seasonal change is most legible in the work of farmers and the bloom of fruit trees.