Gabai plum Gabai A series for the Hanazono poetry association (series title) Hanazono bantsuzuki (series title on object), Still life of various packets and dandelions. The large package packed in straw contains clams, the green-white package perhaps tobacco. The Gabai plum blossom is depicted against a red-yellow background. With one poem in Chinese (right) and one poem in Japanese (left), plants, vegetation (flowers, blossom, blossoming), Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), Japan, 1823, paper, colour woodcut, h 210 mm ⊙ w 182 mm.