Black cat

A nude woman with long black hair, rendered in fine unshaded outline, sits on a bed with her legs drawn up and turned to one side, gazing down at a black-and-white cat arching beside her. The cat stands on a pillow patterned with a yellow-and-black bird motif, set against a second bolster in blue, yellow, and green floral patterning and a backdrop of striped and geometric brown-and-gray curtains. Colour is confined to the bedding, cat, and curtains, while the woman's skin and the bedsheets are left white with only outline linework; the artist's signature appears in the upper right. Medium: mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock); artist: Ishikawa Toraji; title: *Black Cat*; year unknown.