Abstract
Tagasode-zu is one of the themes of screen paintings (byobu-e) which depicts images of kosode draped over clothes racks. On this paper, I clarified the establishing process of Tagasode-zu in early Edo period. Nowadays, it is popular that Tagasode-zu is classified in a type of early modern genre paintings (fuuzoku-zu). But the scenes depicted in Tagasode-zu was not always seen only in the fuuzoku-zu. Before the establishment of Tagasode-zu, Japanese poem (waka) which contains the word Tagasode is used as the motif of writing box decorated in maki-e. That represented the images of kosode draped over not clothes racks but the plum tree. I guessed that the plum tree was replaced by the clothes racks because they ware seen in ordinary life. On this process, I thought Tagasode-zu is established.
