Japan, Utaba, Haikai, Sekimori, Yûkeisai, Shinsai, Ryûryûkyo, Kasen awase, A comparison game of poems, Murasakigai, The purple shell, Two women are fetching the first water of the new year from a well. Traditionally, a fern leaf and a twisted rope are attached to the wooden bucket that one of the women is holding. In the background, a flowering plum tree. With two poems., print, prent, surimono, prints, Japan (collection), height 134 mm, width 184 mm, Japanese, 1764 - 1825, print maker, printmaker, 1809 - 1809, first quarter 19th century, paper, colour woodcut, poet, 1753 - 1829