Two boys gather hagi (branches with leaves) from a raft on a river, The boy pushing the raft wears a shirt with a hare on it (reference to year of the hare). From the series 'Little children on the six ''crystal'' rivers'. Inscription is a poem by Minamoto no Toshiyori: The moon, shining over the lespedeza, came to life in the colorful waves of the crystal clear river Noji, as if, morning would never come. Minamoto no Toshiyori, The Noji no tamagawa is one of the 'six crystal clear rivers'. 'Hagi' is Lespedeza, a Japanese clover, the bush the boys pull., print maker: Isoda Kôryûsai, (mentioned

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Two boys gather hagi (branches with leaves) from a raft on a river, The boy pushing the raft wears a shirt with a hare on it (reference to year of the hare). From the series 'Little children on the six ''crystal'' rivers'. Inscription is a poem by Minamoto no Toshiyori: The moon, shining over the lespedeza, came to life in the colorful waves of the crystal clear river Noji, as if, morning would never come. Minamoto no Toshiyori, The Noji no tamagawa is one of the 'six crystal clear rivers'. 'Hagi' is Lespedeza, a Japanese clover, the bush the boys pull., print maker: Isoda Kôryûsai, (mentioned on object), Minamoto no Toshiyori, Japan, c. 1771, paper, color woodcut, height 257 mm × width 187 mm

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