Flying plum Tobiume (title on object) A series for the Hanazono poetry association (series title) Hanazono bantsuzuki (series title on object), A carp in a fishing net and a wooden statue of a bird. Next to it plum blossom against a silver-red background. The title of the print refers to the plum tree in the garden of Sugawara no Michizane (845-903), which he cared for so well that the tree would have followed him when Michizane was banished. With one poem, bony fishes: carp, Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), Japan, 1820 - 1825, paper, colour woodcut, h 210 mm ⊙ w 181 mm.