Gazing at the water surface

A kingfisher perches on a thick orange-red branch against a solid olive-green ground, its head, back, and wings rendered in deep blue with pale speckled markings, its long bill black above and orange below, and its throat and breast in soft peach and turquoise tones; a thin turquoise drip or streak extends downward from its bill. Behind the bird, stylized orange discs with pale radiating patterns hang from the branch, and a dense vertical mass of dark green-black dashes fills the right side of the composition. The print is pencil-signed and inscribed with the Japanese title and an edition annotation ("A.P. III/V") in the lower margin; work by Fukami Gashu, mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print), year unknown.