In 2014, the blog FiveThirtyEight analyzed 381 episodes in which Ross painted live, concluding that 91% of Ross’s paintings contained at least one tree, 44% included clouds, 39% included mountains and 34% included mountain lakes. By his own estimation, Ross completed more than thirty thousand paintings. His work rarely contained human subjects or signs of human life. On rare occasions, he would incorporate a cabin, sometimes with a chimney but without smoke, and possibly unoccupied. -Wiki
Which came first? The Heikegani crab or the samurai? My money’s on the crab. There’s an interesting article on Wikipedia regarding this.