Rat Snake (Hebi); Lizard or Skink (Tokage), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)

Two-page spread from a book. Left page: a gray-brown snake with a lighter underbelly winds through green leaves with blue flower buds; the snake emerges from lower left and curves up and right. Right page: a small lizard or skink with a long tail faces right; text written vertically in black ink on a background with green leaves and blue flower buds, some characters in the upper right. Pages are aged light brown.