Tanjaku- Poetry Card — 短冊

"Tanjaku — Poetry Card" (短冊, tanzaku) depicts the long, narrow strips of decorated paper on which Japanese poetry was traditionally inscribed — the tanzaku used for writing and hanging poems at the Tanabata festival, in tea ceremony contexts, and as decorative items associated with refined cultural life. Shuntei's subject may be women writing poetry on tanzaku, or the tanzaku themselves as decorative objects in a domestic setting. Either way, the subject connected his genre work to the long tradition associating Japanese women with poetic cultivation and literary refinement.