Kaidō soga

Two adjoining panels on aged, cream-toned paper, printed in sparse black outline with pale grey-tan washes and touches of red. In the left panel, a bald elderly man in a striped robe leans over a low railing toward a partly undressed woman with her hair in a topknot, while a robed figure with an elaborate coiffure stands behind at a papered screen decorated with a floral lattice pattern; the right panel shows two seated adults in patterned kimono beside a crawling infant in a white garment, set against a plain wall and a similar patterned screen, with a vertical column of Japanese characters and two small red seal stamps in the corner. Kawamura Bunpō, "Kaidō soga," 1811, three-tone woodblock print.