Boy Holding a Flute Seated upon a Resting Ox–Personifying the Parable of Striving for Englightenment

Japan

Edo period (1615-1868), About 1750

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Waikei (Bantam Rooster and Hen), from Momoyogusa (A World of Things), Volume 2, Kamisaka Sekka, ink and color on paper
Nestled into mountains by the water are a complex of buildings devoted to silk production. Mulberry leaves are being harvested and dried. Cocoons are stored as they age and other activities are portrayed inside and outside the buildings.
Sleeping Girls (.14, recto); Westside Resting Place (.15, verso), Attributed to Kusakabe Kimbei, hand-colored albumen prints mounted to album page
Two figures, one on horseback and one leading the horse, trudging through a snow covered mountain pass towards a village in the distance below; three other distant figures along road between buildings.