Wild Keshi

Wild keshi — the opium poppy in its naturalized, smaller-flowered form — is rendered in Hiratsuka's 1930 woodcut with the botanical directness he brought to all his flower studies. The poppy's tissue-thin petals and distinctive seed head translate naturally into the woodcut's capacity for both delicate and bold forms within a single composition. The wild designation distinguishes this from cultivated varieties, emphasizing the plant's unmanaged presence.