Painting the Eyes on a Snow Rabbit, 雪兎図, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1780, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 23 3/4 in. ? 16 in. (60. 3 ? 40. 6 cm), Paintings, Isoda Koryūsai (Japanese, 1735?ca. 1790), During the Edo period, as a winter amusement, children often made snow sculptures and the two most popular types were the snow rabbit (yuki usagi) and the snow Daruma (yuki Daruma). This image transports a children?s outdoor pastime into an elegant interior setting where a woman, probably the boy?s mother, paints on the eyes of a snow rabbit he holds on a lacquer tray