Kyōka Verse Album on the Scales of the Carp (Kyōka ririnshū) 狂歌鯉鱗集

Two-page spread from a book. The pages are yellowed with age. A black line borders the illustrations on both pages. Left page: A man sits cross-legged on the floor in the upper left, wearing a blue robe. His right arm is raised and bent at the elbow. Three men are on the bottom left, working. One man on the left wears a blue robe with a brown pleated skirt; he crouches on the left. A man in a gray robe crouches in the center. A man on the right wears a blue robe and a headband; he kneels. Right page: A man sits cross-legged at the top in a blue robe, with an open box in front of him on the right. A blue and white container with objects inside sits on a box behind him. Two men are on the bottom right, working. The man on the left wears a blue robe; he crouches over a box. The man on the right wears a tan robe; he kneels. All the men have black hair. Japanese text appears vertically along the top third of both pages.