It is good to make sake Saketsukuriyochi (title on object) A series for the Hanazono poetry association (series title) Hanazono bantsuzuki (series title on object), A woman makes rice wine (sake) in a big barrel. Behind her are two metal sacrificial bottles. With two poems. The prints from this series are in line with the belief that the first activities of the new year were extra special. The red cartouche on the prints refers to almanacs in which it was indicated which activities could or could not be undertaken on certain days by people born in a certain year. Totoya Hokkei (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1822, paper, colour woodcut, h 204 mm ⊙ w 170 mm.