Disagreement between an eight-year-old boy and Confucius Hasai no ko to K?shi no mond? (title on object) Additional stories from Uji (series title) Uji sh?i Monogatari (series title on object), The Chinese philosopher Confucius (K?shi) in conversation with a little boy standing in front of him. Behind them a waterfall and rising sun. On the left rocks and branches of a pine. With two poems. This image refers to the story of the boy who asked Confucius what was further away, the city of Lo Yang, or the place where the sun goes down. After the philosopher had given him the obvious answer, the boy objected that you can see the place where the sun goes down, but not the city of Lo Yang, waterfall, Yashima Gakutei (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1829, paper, colour woodcut, h 204 mm ⊙ w 176 mm.