Description: This smaller scroll painting shows a very finely painted image with a brown horse at its center. Two baskets on its back, each containing a bijin, both with pinned-up hair and smoking pipes. A servant is kneeling on the ground in front of the horse and tying his sandals. A stone lantern, or ishidoro, with a flaming pearl between two tree trunks behind the group. The background is very large and fades into the distant haze. Signature HOKU-SAI I-ITSU 北 齋 為 一 hitsu 筆 and red seal on the right. Very finely mounted with silk and silk brocade, wood jikusaki. Condition: Good condition, minor staining Provenance: From a German private collection