Villagers Netting Colorful Insects

Four men in embroidered folk shirts and tall boots stand together under a broad tree, each holding a mesh net crowded with colorful insects in green, red, blue and yellow. Behind them, a cluster of thatched cottages sits inside wattle fences, with cherry blossoms in bloom and a river curving through green hills toward the horizon. Vegetable patches, flowering shrubs and berry bushes fill the near foreground behind a woven fence, and a straw-roofed hut stands at the left with a stacked haystack on top. Morning light spreads low across the rolling fields, catching the blossoming trees along the riverbank. The men compare their catches side by side, each net holding its own small cluster of insects, distinct from the rest.