Woman and Small Boy

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In this print the artist employs seasonal clues to suggest the summer setting. Mother and child are engaged in a leisure summertime activity, a luxury they can enjoy as members of the merchant class (ch\u014dnin). The child points to a cicada (a summer insect) on a tree branch, and his mother shows interest in her son's discovery. Each holds an accessory common in summer: he a parasol, she a fan.Shunch\u014d often used the format of hashira-e, or pillar print\u2014a narrow, vertical composition. Here, following the Japanese convention in which images are cropped to conform to the print's dimensions, he truncated the parasol, the mother's left arm, and part of her hair. With particular skill he rendered just enough of the tree to let the viewer know where the child's attention is focused.

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