Domestic scene

Interior view of a farmhouse veranda: an older man sits cross-legged at left, weaving straw into a rope or sandal with a wooden tool, surrounded by loose straw bundles and finished straw footwear on the floor and steps below. Two children in red kimono play with striped balls in the doorway opening onto a garden of white-blossomed and red-flowered shrubs, while a kettle steams over a sunken hearth and a woman in a pale blue floral robe sits at the right sewing or mending cloth. The palette is dominated by warm grays, straw tans, and browns, with the red kimono, red blossoms, and glowing hearth fire as the main accent colors, giving the scene a quiet, domestic winter-into-spring mood; signed with a red artist's seal at lower right, per the title, artist (Hiyoshi Mamoru), and medium (mokuhanga) provided.