Mother and Child by Gourd Trellis in Moonlight (colour woodblock print)

Surimono, a woman frilling cloth, she has stopped work and leans both elbows on the roller, her chin in her hands, boy with birdcage stands before her, huge maize-cobs on right, (It looks more like a sponge cucumber/dishcloth gourd (Hechima), which was used to called Ito-Uri in Edo era. People used to make filature from a Ito-Uri.) outlines of foliage topped by full-moon in gauffrage above, inscription. Signed by Souri-ga. The poem starts from Nuno-no-Kai-Kinuta, (Nuno means a fabric, Kinuta means an old wood tool like an iron, which is shown in front of the boy’s left foot), and finishes with Kawa-no-Tsuki, (Kawa means a River, Tsuki means a moon), and the word beside the poem shows Eight-bridge?. Attributed to: Hishikawa S?ri.