Cuckoo Flying over Deutzia Flowers

A single bird with a slender pointed tail and mottled grey-brown plumage flies diagonally across an ochre sky streaked with white clouds, above a pale green slope. Below, slender reeds and a flowering shrub with small white and pink blossoms grow along the rise, rendered in soft greens with touches of coral pink. Columns of Japanese calligraphy fill the upper right sky; a small red seal appears at the lower right. "Cuckoo Flying over Deutzia Flowers," a chuban color woodblock print by Komatsuya Hyakki, 1766.