Dyer

Long bolts of patterned dyed cloth in orange-and-white, yellow, pink, and blue-and-white patterns hang and drape diagonally across the upper right of the scene, with workers bent over examining or handling the fabric on the right side. In the left foreground, a standing figure in a brown jacket and dark skirt-like apron faces a crouching figure in a blue patterned jacket, while a small child in a green top and red trousers stands beside them near potted plants and flowering shrubs arranged on tiered shelves. The palette is soft and muted — cream, brown, ochre, dusty pink, and slate blue-grey — with the artist's seal and signature in the lower left and the title cartouche in the upper right; this print of a dye shop ("Dyer") is by Wada Sanzo, dated 1940, a color woodblock print.