Refuge On

Two figures are seated with their backs to the viewer on a raised platform, watching a distant townscape shrouded in gray-brown smoke, with a dim reddish sun overhead and small crowds of fleeing figures visible below. A woman in a blue kimono patterned with white clover leaves and a red obi rests her hand on the shoulder of a man in a white shirt and straw boater hat; a pair of brown boots, a teapot, a wooden bucket, and bundled green cloth sit near them on the platform, with a tall reddish post and green vine-patterned drapery at the left edge. The palette is muted—grays, browns, and muted blues and greens against pale cream paper—giving the scene a hazy, smoke-filled atmosphere. Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock) print titled "Refuge On" by Igawa Sengai; year unknown.