Flowers in Vase (Winter)

The fourth variant in Ohno Bakufu's Flowers in Vase (Winter) series, this print depicts a still-life arrangement of cold-season blooms — likely camellia, plum blossom, or narcissus — presented in a ceramic or lacquered vessel. As the final numbered variant in the group, it likely departs most significantly from the primary composition in terms of colorway or floral selection, offering the most distinct reading within the set. Winter flower arrangements in Japanese visual culture are associated with the tea aesthetic — restrained, asymmetrical, attentive to negative space — and Ohno's woodblock interpretation would reflect those values. The vase provides a stable vertical axis against which blooms and stems create organic asymmetry. Multiple block passes would render the varied surface textures of petals, leaves, and ceramic glaze within a single cohesive composition.