By Toyokawa Mitsunaga II (1850-1923), Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryThe woman shown supporting her boisterous young son on her back with one hand and holding her straw hat with the other, the child leaning over and pulling his mother's ear, signed Oju Mitsunaga kore o horu with gold inlaid seal Mitsunaga; with a wooden tomobako storage box inscribed outside the lid Nofu senkoku (Engraved [figure of] a peasant woman), inside the lid signed Oju Hakuzanshi Toyokawa Mitsunaga with two seals. 36.2cm (14?in) high. (2).