The Zodiac

A leaping rabbit outlined in bold black and filled with orange-and-cream horizontal stripes bounds across a dark, textured crescent shape on tan paper, with loose gray brushstroke marks scattered beneath it suggesting motion. Vertical Japanese characters run down the left side, and hand-brushed English text reading "THE TRACKS OF A RABBIT WITH LONG UNDERWEAR ARE NOT THE TRACKS OF A RABBIT" fills the right side in the same loose calligraphic style as the print's linework. The palette is limited to black, burnt orange, olive-gray, and the paper's natural tan, giving the composition a playful, graphic, print-like quality. Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) by Clifton Karhu, titled "The Zodiac," year unknown.