A coloring book of traditional Japanese patterns by Ayako Shikata. It collects patterns based on the flowers and scenes of Japan's four seasons, along with lucky patterns that stand for wishes such as long life and many descendants.
The seasonal pages are grouped into spring, summer, fall and winter. Spring has cherry blossoms, peonies, wisteria, and swallows with willow. Summer has hydrangeas, irises, plovers over waves, morning glories with dragonflies, and goldfish. Fall has bellflowers, chrysanthemums, a rabbit with the moon, ginkgo and maple leaves, and grapes. Winter has pine, bamboo and plum, snow rings, narcissus, camellias and New Year scenes. There are also pages for the Four Gentlemen plants and for all four seasons together.
The lucky patterns include collected treasures, court carriages, shippo circles, temari balls, cranes, bundled noshi, fans, butterflies, mandarin ducks, phoenixes and a wedding theme.
Translated from the Japanese original.