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Woman Helping a Boy with His Kite
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Woman Helping a Boy with His Kite

Keisai Eisen · 1827 · color woodcut; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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A woman about to draw the first water (wakamizu) in the new year from the well, helping a boy retrieve his kite from a plum tree. The character on the kite stands for the year of the bear. Two poems on the left.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
surimono(flying a) kite
Credit lineVrouw helpt een jongetje met zijn vlieger. 1827. Keisai Eisen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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