5th lunar month from the series The Twelve Months, c.1830-1839 (woodblock print on paper)

Children's Day with shoki banners and helmet. Street Scene: A family- father uplifting model of a warrior actor drinking out of huge sake cup. Mother with child on back, and three children on foot dressed for carnival, one in frame of a door in a wooden wall ascending left to right, diagonally across the print. Behind the wall are banners, Shoki, a large helmet and two with wave design. To left of these four emblems are two pine trees. One in a set of ten prints with ornamental borders, each depicting a typical Japanese genre scene with pleb and/or upper class characters. Hanabusa, Itcho