Drunken Li Bai

Two figures rendered in loose ink outline on plain paper: a tall bearded man in a long, flowing robe and soft peaked cap, bent forward at the waist with unsteady, splayed feet, one arm reaching down to a small child who stands gripping his leg and looking up at him. The palette is monochrome ink wash on a pale paper ground, with the man's robe defined by a few broad, calligraphic brush strokes and a small red seal stamped near the artist's signature at lower left. Columns of cursive ink inscriptions fill the upper left portion of the sheet above and beside the figures — consistent with the hanging-scroll format of Hashimoto Kansetsu's 1925 ink-on-paper work "Drunken Li Bai."