Jakuchu's Rooster

A rooster with a white body, black-and-teal tail feathers, and a red comb and wattle stands at the lower edge of the composition, head lowered as if pecking at a stone ledge. Below and behind it spreads a densely packed aerial cityscape rendered in grey and black tones, with a cluster of dark high-rise towers rising above a sea of smaller rooftops, set against a pale turquoise sky. The etched, textured linework of the buildings contrasts with the smoother, more naturalistic coloring of the bird, and the print is identified as an aquatint titled "Jakuchu's Rooster" by Emiko Aida.