Long Necks

A stylized white bird with an elongated neck bends its head downward, its face reduced to a simple round white mask-like form with small dark eyes and a faint smile, topped by a black cap-like shape with a small red-and-white patterned accent. Two more slender white necks and rounded bodies flank the central figure against a plain dark olive-green background, with small red accents on the birds' bodies echoing the cap decoration above. The composition is flat and graphic, rendered in muted white, black, red, and olive tones typical of the woodblock medium; a small red seal appears in the lower right corner. Kaoru Kawano, *Long Necks*, woodblock print.