A storyteller regales a small crowd. Among the crowd, there are a literatus, a Daoist, and monk listening to the storyteller.
This is the only monastery in the painting, with a lone monk (or nun) standing outside at the gate. Aside from being the abode of the various religious specialists, they often serve as shelters for the vagrants in the city as well, in addition to other charity work that they might perform throughout the city.
A servant is delivering dishes to another server on the second floor.
Servants chasing after a horse that has galloped away.
There are numerous sedan chairs in the painting. As a sedan chair requires servants to carry it, the passengers in them must be relatively affluent members of society. In fact, virtually all of the sedan chairs in the painting are each accompanied by a veritable entourage of people in its procession. Here, in particular, we see a procession of two sedan chairs, with a relatively small entourage of servants. In the second sedan chair, we see the woman passenger looking at the street from the window on the sedan chair.
Palanquin Parked in Front of a Restaurant
There are numerous sedan chairs in the painting. As a sedan chair requires servants to carry it, the passengers in them must be relatively affluent members of society. In fact, virtually all of the sedan chairs in the painting are each accompanied by a veritable entourage of people in its procession.
There are numerous sedan chairs in the painting. As a sedan chair requires servants to carry it, the passengers in them must be relatively affluent members of society. In fact, virtually all of the sedan chairs in the painting are each accompanied by a veritable entourage of people in its procession. Here, in particular, we see that the sedan chair and the entourage of its passenger is running up against a horseback riding official or literatus and his own entourage.