This folding screen is also signed and sealed with Hokyo Korin, but the predominant theory is that Hokyo was added later by someone else, suggesting that Kakitsubata-zu was created before Korin became Hokyo.
この屏風には「法橋光琳」の落款があるが、「法橋」の2字は別人による書き入れとする説が有力で、この説にしたがえば、『燕子花図』は光琳の法橋位受領以前の作品となる。