Brewing tea in the pinewood by a stream

This work was created in the summer when Kaioku was 61 years old. Signed as Kaikaku. The limpid stream is splashing down through the pine trees; two literary people are talking over a scroll. Beside them is a boy preparing tea and making fire with charcoal in the stove.
The culture of sencha green tea was introduced to Japan from China along with the Obaku zen Buddhism. While enjoying the flavor alone in the study, or writing poems over a cup of tea with like-minded friends, many literary people liked sencha; and people enjoying sencha often appear on the works of literati art.