Mother And child walking along a forest road

A figural composition rendering two figures in motion through a wooded passage. Sasajima's sosaku-hanga approach to genre subjects retained the same heavy carving language he applied to architecture: figures defined by interlocking dark masses rather than outline, the trees flanking the path reduced to vertical bars of varied weight. The print likely uses the limited palette typical of his work — black or dark indigo dominant, with restrained earth tones for the figures and ground plane. Travel imagery sat at the edge of his usual concerns, but the motif of human passage through landscape connected to the broader sosaku-hanga interest in lived experience over picturesque convention. Following Onchi Koshiro's teaching, Sasajima would have designed, carved, and printed every block himself, pressing each impression by baren onto sheets of washi. The composition's emphasis on figures dwarfed by surrounding trees echoes the scale relationships in his temple prints, where worshippers appear as small forms beneath massive timber architecture.