Print 5 - Akashi - 明石

"Akashi" (Chapter 13) rendered here as "Print 5" in Ebina's Genji sequence represents the artist's illustration of Genji's exile on the Akashi coast — the storm-battered shore where political disgrace becomes the setting for new love and the generation of a daughter who will become Empress. The Akashi coast's distinctive coastal character — pine trees, the sound of waves, the sense of distance from the capital — gave Ebina rich material for a print that is simultaneously landscape, figure scene, and emotional portrait of exile.