A Heron

A single figure in a rose-pink hooded jacket and dark trousers bends forward at the waist, working in a flooded field planted with short rows of green seedlings. Behind the figure stands an open wooden shelter with a peaked plank roof and horizontal wooden rails crossing the water, with a broader stretch of water and a dense, dark green tree line filling the middle distance beneath a mottled blue-and-white sky. The palette is muted and atmospheric — grays, blues, and soft greens — giving the scene a quiet, solitary, workaday mood. This woodblock print is attributed to Joshua Rome, titled "A Heron."

Flagging for you: no heron or bird appears anywhere in the image — the subject is a person planting/tending a paddy field. The print's own margin also reads "76/100" and "Tsuru" (not "A Heron") with a seal and a signature ending "88," which conflicts with the given title and "year unknown." Worth checking whether this record is mismatched to the wrong image or metadata before it goes back into the catalog.