The above work portrays the Qing dynasty-era Chinese painter Lu Hsueh-ku, who specialized in a traditional style of fingerpainting, playing the yueqin (moon lute) as a Japanese badger dances. The “public flower garden in the hills of Asakusa” refers to a garden famous for peonies and chrysanthemums that was maintained for sightseeing purposes by horticulturalist Rokusaburo Morita from the final years of the Edo period through the Meiji period (mid- to late 19th century). Today, the Asakusa Hanayashiki amusement park is located at this very site. The text around the title and on the paper lantern reads “Shinshotei,” which was the name of a Japanese restaurant opened by Rokusaburo Morita in the final years of the Edo period.