Genji Monogatari

This etching titled *Genji Monogatari*, by Saito Kaoru, is shown here as a set of six separate square prints, each individually matted on cream paper with pencil annotations at the lower edge. Every panel isolates one or two stylized figures with flat, pale oval faces and dark hair against a black or deep-toned ground: a grayscale embrace of two figures, a navy-ground profile beside blue morning glories, a red-robed figure holding a fan before a red fan-patterned backdrop, a wide-hatted figure in a rust-orange patterned robe amid scattered red maple leaves, a reclining figure wrapped in a maroon floral robe, and a pale mask-like face set among yellow flowers with a blue butterfly and small blue bird. The palette shifts sharply panel to panel, moving from black-and-white to saturated red, blue, orange, maroon, and yellow-green.