Two women are seated at the counter of a shop selling
seto someii to travellers. As shown in this print,
someii [coloured rice] was steamed in wooden frames over a stove and then sold in flat parcels placed between the white disks shown to the left of the women.
For another impression in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, see www.mfa.org, accession number 21.10278 and another in the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, go to http://embarkkiosk.chazen.wisc.edu/OBJ7664
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