Bamboo in the Wind

Bamboo in the Wind, Kotozuka Eiichi, woodblock print, undated. A dense stand of bamboo fills the composition, thick jointed stalks rising vertically with slender leaves streaming to one side against a plain pale ground. Rendered in muted grey and black tones with no other figures or setting shown, the print reads as a close, tightly cropped view of the grove with a red seal in the lower left corner.