This painting portrays the top courtesan, Hanaogi, of the Ogiya brothel, which was located Yoshiwara in Edo. There is a gorgeous cherry tree in bloom inside a round pot with a dragon pattern painted on it. This cherry is in a style called tako-zukuri, where the trunk and branches are bent artifically. On the top half of the painting there is a poem from the Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred People, One Poem Each) Series, which can be translated to read: “a life in Vain. My looks, talents faded, like these cherry blossoms, paling in the endless rains, that I gaze out upon, alone.” The poem expresses the feelings of women.