Caption on front [translation]: "Saburosuke Okada is a painter who is an influential senior member of painters' circles. He will got to Italy to study tempera painting around March at the beginning of spring. His wife, Yachiyo, will go to Italy with him."

Caption on front [translation]: "Painter Saburosuke Okada. He comes from Saga prefecture and was born in 1869. After he studied in Nishogogakusha and Toyo Eiwa School, he entered Dazaikan to study foreign books. He started to follow Kyoteru Kuroda, Keiichi Kume, and others to study oil painting in 1895. He became a professor of Tokyo Art …

Caption on reverse [translation]: "The painter Okada traveled on foot to view works of art in Europe. After he finished his carefree travel, he got to Tokyo at [?]:55 [?] on the 26th. Pupils and friends didn't know when he got onto a train, so they didn't know when the train got to Tokyo. They were …