19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Blue Bonnet, Sunflowers, Strawberries political cartoon drawing Serene but very cheerful and

Serene but very cheerful and just lovely

The tradition of Semamori began as a Japanese folk custom in the Edo period

structurally sound and with original lithographed paper label firmly attached

with spare but specific details

There are irregularities original to its making

19th C. Double-Sided Naive Graphite & Crayon Drawing: Blue Bonnet, Sunflowers, Strawberries political cartoon drawing Serene but very cheerful andThis is one of a handful of drawings I'm listing by the same (surely quite young) maker, found together in an old notebook already partially disassembled so I went ahead and separated them all. I'd guess 1870s or so, and all quite wonderful, with the people especially soulful this wild eyed pink cheeked girl in her blue bonnet a perfect case in point, looking a bit cat like, and also fiercely determined, and also perhaps possessed! The dramatic curve