Seven Herbs of Early Spring by Kamisaka Sekka Canvas Print Size:100x75cm / 40x30in It's gentle horizontal tension in

It's gentle horizontal tension in the right places

cream and mustard blooms

and ceramics in cream or chalky white

jute underfoot and a few pale ceramics

Hang it up and the room turns from polite to party

Seven Herbs of Early Spring by Kamisaka Sekka Canvas Print Size:100x75cm / 40x30in It's gentle horizontal tension inStart with the soft green; it'll wake every linen around it. This is Kamisaka Sekka's botanical study from 19091910, with small spring herbs rising out of a cream snowbank. Put it on a wall and the room slows down. The green is muted, the background is warm cream, and the whole thing reads as space rather than pattern. A quiet room gets a little life without losing its calm. It works in a bedroom over a low headboard, in a hallway above a slim