Anjo Tanabata festival

Tall paper streamers and pom-pom-like ball ornaments in saturated pink, blue, yellow, purple, red, and green fill the upper composition, hung with checkered brown-and-red paper cubes and strings of small colored balls. Below, a dense street crowd in summer clothing and kimono moves beneath the decorations, with a red-and-yellow striped awning and a shop sign reading "やき" (yaki) visible at lower right and a banner with the characters "安城" (Anjō) partly visible at right. This is "Anjo Tanabata Festival" by Fumio Kitaoka, a mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print) numbered 154/200 in pencil at lower left and signed and dated 1986 at lower right.