Going Back Home After Fishing

The upper half of the picture is a madder-red sky and a thicket of reeds spreading below it. In front lies pale water, where two people in hats walk together and another, a little apart, carries a basket on the back. Every figure is small, which strongly conveys the stillness of a wide dusk scene.

According to the museum, the figures in the foreground are drawn with thin outlines, but none can be found in the water, the thicket of reeds or the sky. The water reflecting the color of the sky is especially effective and conveys the quiet of evening.

Shunso began trying the outline-free method (mosenbyoho) around the year before he made this work. He was particularly drawn to waterside subjects that suit the method, and left representative works such as Kiku Jido (Iida City Museum) and Tsuribori (Yamatane Museum of Art).