Hagi (Bush clover),Yamashiroya nai Hatsuito (Hatsuito of Yamashiroya), from the series Ukiyo bijin yosebana (Collection of flowers and beauties of the floating world)

The letter is addressed to the courtesan Hatsuito of the Yamashiroya. The poem reads: "Where does it cast its shade as I go wandering, my clover-dyed Shimejino cloak?" (transl. Jack Hillier in Suzuki Harunobu, an exhibition of his colour-prints and illustrated books on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death in 1770 [Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970], no. 131).