Bush Clover (Hagi), from an untitled series of Flowers

Two women stand in a green landscape beside a flowering bush clover shrub with slender branches and small pink blossoms, its stems bending toward a winding pale stream. The woman at left wears a green hood-like outer robe over a red and patterned kimono and leans toward the plant, while the woman at right, hair worn up, wears a white robe with a red collar over a hexagon-patterned garment and a striped sash. A cloud-shaped cartouche of vertical Japanese text occupies the upper right, with the artist's signature and seal in the lower right corner; the palette is dominated by muted greens, soft reds, and beige. Suzuki Harunobu, 1764, color woodblock print (chuban), from an untitled series of Flowers, this sheet titled Bush Clover (Hagi).