It's good to cut your nails; Tsumetoriyoshi; A series for the Hanazone poets association; Hanazono bantsuzuki. A seated woman with scissors in the right hand, her nails clipping. For her a bowl of spices on a red painted tray. 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 that indicated which activities did not or better not to be taken on certain days by people born in a given year.

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Photo credit: © BTEU/RKMLGE / Alamy / Afripics
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