Sawara

A riverside scene with a boy in white clothing and a dark cap lying on the ground beside a wooden fence, reading or resting against a wicker basket, framed by two slender trees with feathery green foliage. Behind him a wide river or waterway stretches toward distant pale-blue hills, with small boats on the water and a tall wooden crane or hoist structure with rigging on the far bank. The palette is soft and muted — pale blue sky, sandy tan foreground, and greens in the trees and grasses — giving the scene a quiet, relaxed mood; the artist's seal and the title "佐原" appear in the lower right.