Girl With violets

A standalone child figure paired with violets, joining Nakayama's two recurring decorative motifs. The composition likely centers a single girl, often shown frontally or in three-quarter view with the oversized head and stylized eyes characteristic of his figures from the 1960s onward. Violets — small, low-growing flowers — would typically be distributed across the surface as repeating decorative units rather than arranged as cut still life, treating the picture plane as an ornamental field. Mokuhanga prints of this type employ multiple blocks for color separation, with each pigment hand-applied by brush and printed under [baren](/glossary/baren) pressure on [washi](/glossary/washi). Subtle [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) may appear in background washes, but the primary effect comes from flat color planes and visible carving texture. The work belongs to Nakayama's sustained interest in girlhood as a subject, parallel to his horse production and continuing the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) commitment to the artist as sole maker. The decorative integration of figure and flower draws on traditional kimono pattern logic translated into a modern graphic register.