Children

Group of children playing: (a-i-deul-nol-go). Ai means child; nolgo, to be playing. This somewhat rudimentary watercolour depicts in some detail the kind of games and anecdotes typical of a society looked down upon for being from a pre-industrial time.
Carla Alferes Pinto in the Catalogue Portuguese Presence in Asia, Museu do Oriente, p. 440-442

The artist Kim Jun-geun was a Korean Christian painter who worked during the last two decades of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Having adopted the artistic name Kisan, he was best known for over three hundred watercolours depicting local folklore and customs, and in 1892 for illustrating the Korean translation of John Bunyan's famous work, The Pilgrim’s Progress.