Title unknown [Young couple looking into a well]

A young couple bends together over a well — perhaps looking for a reflection, perhaps drawing water, perhaps just the shared act of leaning into the same darkness — in this Taisho-era composition by Yumeji. The well is an old symbol in Japanese tradition: a threshold between the surface world and something deeper, a place of reflection and revelation. The couple at the well share both a physical position and an act of looking, their togetherness defined by what they are both looking down into — a shared depth.