Child carrying a younger child 2
by Saito Kaoru
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Saito Kaoru
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Saito Kaoru's prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors of Japanese creative prints.
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.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Child carrying a younger child 2 was created by Saito Kaoru (斎藤薫).
Child carrying a younger child 2 depicts children and daily life.
