Fifty-three Pairings for the Tōkaidō Road “ Fuchū "

Alongside the tea-picking lady and the lesser cuckoo implying the start of tea harvesting
season, the origin of Abe tea and a Bashō’s Haiku is inserted. The women are
wearing kimonos with Kōshi-jima (cross stripes).
Bashō was regarded as the leading poet of Haiku. His Haiku reads that even the scent
of mandarin orange flowers in Fuchū (famous for tea) smell like newly-picked tea.