This is a painting in the pillar format
Note how Hoitsu balances the tones and colors and guides our sight through the painting using tonal and color variation. Darker tones at the bottom of the wash that forms the tree trunk then a lower branch that's orange and red paralleled above by a thicker darker branch and red leaves and more orange at the top.
No wonder the Ukiyo-e artists so quickly adapted to color printing with splendid examples of good color layout like this !
Hoitsu was not a Ukiyo-e artist and while this is a painting not a print painters from other schools could inspect and study works like this at tea ceremonies or if they were displayed at temples or poetry parties.
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