Flower of the Beach

A stylized cluster of small white flowers with pale teal-green leaves rises against a dark charcoal ground, its petals rendered as faceted, star-like points. Behind it, a horizontal band of jagged red and black abstract shapes suggests a distant shoreline or rock formation, above which a pale green sun or moon sits inside a white halo against a turquoise sky. The composition is divided into three flat horizontal registers of turquoise, red-and-black, and charcoal, giving "Flower of the Beach," a woodblock print by Fumio Kitaoka, a bold, graphic quality.