Japanese funeral customs: a kneeling, red-robed Buddhist chief priest chants before the picture of a family ancestor. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).

Left, a scroll with a picture of a samurai hangs on the wall, flanked by two other scrolls with lettering in Japanese; on a low table in front of the image and on the floor in front of the priest are ceremonial objects; right, a woman comforts another woman who is prostrate with grief; on a low shelf in the background are a large book tied with a blue cord and a gold statuette depicted a kneeling or misshapen (?) figure