A view across a patchwork of cultivated fields toward Hikone Castle, which stands on a forest-covered hill in the distance. Some of the fields are green with flowers and tidy rows of spring growth, while ither sections are still bare earth. A few figures in broad hats are working in the fields. Beyond, the forest covering the low hill of Mount Konki is dim and shadowed; the highest parts of Hikone Castle reach above the treetops. Overhead, the sky is cloudy and hazy.

Title: Hikone Castle in Spring (1951)

Artist: Toshi Yoshida

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