Set Of 4 flower prints

Issued as a four-sheet group, this set sits within the [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e) (bird-and-flower) tradition that runs from Hokusai's large flower studies through the kacho-ga of Ohara Koson and the [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) florals published by Watanabe Shozaburo. Four-print sets of this type are commonly organized around the seasons — one flower per season, such as plum or camellia for winter, cherry for spring, iris or peony for summer, and chrysanthemum or maple for autumn — though some series instead present four cultivars within a single season. Compositionally each sheet would isolate the plant against an unmodulated or lightly [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi)-graded ground, allowing the keyblock to carry the precise drawing of stem, leaf, and bloom. Tokuriki worked extensively in kacho-e alongside his landscape output, and these flower sets were among the works most actively exported through the postwar Kyoto print trade to Western collectors.