women; children (people by age group); kimonos; books; clocks; tables (support furniture); cabinets (case furniture); calligraphy
Two girls and their mother are enjoying books. One daughter is kneeling before an open illustrated volume, holding a pointer to help her read. Her sister, standing behind, holds another thread bound book, similar in color to the cover of the one...
Three women in flowered kimonos sit around a koto, a form of 13-string zither. The girl on the left is removing the tsume, or picks, from a tasseled bag, and the girl in the middle placing them on her forefinger, middle finger, and thumb of the...
men (male humans); women; Japanese maple; kimonos; mountains; trees; biwa; mountains
Meiji period color woodblock image from the series, "Snow, Moon, Flower." In the image the Imperial Cabinet Minister (Taisei Daijin) Moronaga is interrupted while playing a Biwa by a water god (Suijin). In the inset a hairy fox-eared beast, the...