Acteur Ichikawa Danjūro VIII als de geest van Seigen, uit de serie Vergelijkingen met de 36 dichters
The monk Seigen was in love with Princess Sakura (cherry blossom). She rejected him, whereupon he starved himself, and his spirit haunted her. The blue make-up and the pose of the hands indicate that this is a ghost. The poem is in keeping with Seigens’s restlessness: without cherry blossom, perhaps our heart would find peace in the spring.