Warrior and Attendant

A tall warrior strides forward wearing a red lamellar cuirass and shoulder guards over an olive-green kimono patterned with leaves and blue flowers, a tan under-robe, a black eboshi cap, and a sword slung at his hip; his beard and mustache are rendered in fine ink line. Beside him a smaller attendant, mostly hidden beneath a wide red hat and matching red robe, peers out with a blue-and-white patterned underskirt and sandals visible below. The figures are set against a pale, sparsely washed ground with faint grey-green reeds or grasses and a dark tree trunk at the left edge, the artist's ink signature and red seals appearing in the lower left corner of this hanging scroll by Matsumoto Fūko, 1900, ink and colour on silk.