In the late Edo period, in so-called “good luck years,” there was a trend of sending a type of ukiyo-e print called uke-e that depicts objects beginning with the sound “fu,” since “fu” is also the first sound in Japanese words for good luck and wealth. This print is one such work. The Japanese names of the potted plants on the shelves all begin with the sound “fu”. On the top shelf, pheasant’s eye (fukujuso) and asarum caulescens ginger (futaba-aoi); on the middle shelf, cotton rose (fuyo), thoroughwort (fujibakama), and tree peony (fuyu-botan); and on the bottom shelf, Japanese sweet coltsfoot (fuki) and softstem bulrush (futoi). The woman in this print is using a contemporary watering pot with a perforated nozzle on a bamboo cylinder.