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Sosetsu was a grandson of Mori Sosen (1747-1821), Japan's best-known painter of monkeys, and he followed the latter's painting style. Sosetsu's father, Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841), like Kirei, who did the neighboring painting, was one of the ten top pupils of the great Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795), an advocate of painting based on close observation of nature. The composition depicts the idea: "Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil." It is one of only a few verifiable existing works by Sosetsu.