It is good to cut your nails Tsumetoriyoshi (title on object) A series for the Hanazone poetry association (series title) Hanazono bantsuzuki (series title on object), A sitting woman with scissors in the right hand, clipping her nails. For her a bowl of herbs on a red lacquered tray the ground. 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 203 mm ⊙ w 175 mm.