Bush Clover, Grass and Cricket

Slender curving grass blades sweep upward from the lower left in dark, calligraphic ink strokes, their fine trailing tips fanning out against a plain, undefined ground. A small cricket clings to one stalk near the base, and a spray of bush clover with rounded leaflets and tiny blossoms grows low across the composition. The palette is muted and monochrome-toned overall, with the artist's signature and seal in the lower left corner; this hanging scroll in ink and color on silk by Matsumura Keibun is dated 1830 and titled *Bush Clover, Grass and Cricket*.