Tanabata Eve (T-4942)

A woman in a dark indigo kimono kneels at right, holding a paper fan tucked against her shoulder and a folded paper or tablet in one hand, her eyes downcast; beside her a small child in a red and orange patterned robe kneels on the floor writing or painting on paper with a brush, an ink stone and additional papers spread nearby. A censer with smoking incense sits in the lower right corner, and the background is a plain warm beige silk with faint age spots, framed in a dark wood border. The palette is muted — indigo, beige, and touches of red and gold — rendered in ink and mineral colors with shell powder on silk, consistent with the two-panel folding screen format of Kanpo Yoshikawa's "Tanabata Eve."