Child carrying a younger child 2

An older child carries a younger one on their back in this woodblock print, depicting a scene once common in Japanese daily life when elder siblings served as caretakers while parents worked. The "2" in the title suggests this is a second version or variation of the subject, indicating Saito's sustained interest in the motif. The carrying child's posture, leaning forward with the smaller child secured against their back, creates a compact pyramidal form that the woodblock medium renders with sympathetic solidity. The practice of komori (child-minding by older children) was a fixture of rural and working-class Japanese life well into the twentieth century, and Saito's print preserves this vanishing custom as a visual record.