Yamanouchi Shin-ichi was a leading painter of the Shōwa period. Living in Kyōto, he studied the art under Nishiyama Suishō to graduate from the Kyōto Municipal School of Fine Arts and Crafts. Yamanouchi Shin-ichi’s works were selected for the Bunten, Tēten, and Nitten exhibitions one after another, with his faithful reproduction of his master, Nishiyama Suishō’s painting style. He also served as a judge of the Tēten exhibition to be one of competent painters.

In this work, a crane is depicted as being groomed with its lovely expression, sounding quite amusing. Yamanouchi Shin-ichi beautifully expressed the poetic sentimentality that the Shijō School has placed so much emphasis on, amazingly letting the audience become attached to the crane. The use of the minimum number of brushstrokes to accurately depict the subject matter is perhaps a traditional technique of the artists, his master Nishiyama Suishō and Suishō’s master Takeuchi Sēihō. The vigorously drawn lines give the audience a sense of the dynamic nature of the crane.