Page 138 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

214-THE BOYS A TD THE ROOSTER
Two boys out for play in a garden are trying to get up
a cock-fight with only a single rooster. The bird doesn't
know whether to be game or not, as they taunt him with
the cockscomb flower, but he is ready for emergencies as
he spreads his feet, ruffles his neck-feathers and lowers his
head, gazing with pugnacious inquiry at the flower. The
boy holding it is in pink trousers and blue coat. His
companion, who seeks to add to the cock's confusion and
irritation by dangling a pine branch before him, wears
blue trousers and a gorgeous mandarin coat of vermilion
and gold. The garden is a place of beauty, beside a body of
water in active motion. Grasses and bushes grow around
rocks in the foreground, and trees at the water's edge, and
on the right the rock peony is in bloom. The back is or-
namented, in brown, gold and green lacquer, with a display
of peaches growing, bamboo trees, bats, the narci sus, and
chrysanthemums. (Unfortunately, two corners of the
glass are cracked.)
Heiqht, 80 inches; lenqth, 49% inches.