Writing man in black kimono (series title), Musashib? Benkei, in black kimono, bends over a sheet of paper with a brush in his hand to make the first calligraphy of the New Year. Behind him a flowering miniature plum tree in a pot, with a sign that says 'Gary?bai', the name of the famous plum tree at the Kameido Tenjin shrine in Edo (present-day Tokyo). With three poems, right sheet of a diptych, calligraphy (variant), tree: plum-tree, Keisai Eisen (mentioned on object), Japan, 1825 - 1829, paper, polishing, h 207 mm ⊙ w 188 mm.