The Dragon's Gift

A large green dragon with reddish-brown ribbed underbelly coils across the upper portion of the composition, its horned, orange-eyed head lowered toward a young dark-haired boy standing below amid pale swirling clouds. The boy, barefoot and dressed in a red sleeveless tunic with a bundled blue-and-red cloth sash, gathers a cluster of round orange orbs in a dark blue cloth held against his body while gripping a red staff across his back; the scene is set against a deep indigo night sky, with vertical cartouches of Japanese text framing the upper left and lower right corners. Woodblock print, "The Dragon's Gift," Jed Henry, 2016.