Goryo Kaku

A snow-covered path leads across a wooden footbridge toward a stone-walled entrance, flanked by three small roofed signboards or notice posts mounted on wooden stilts. Bare, twiggy shrubs line a snowy embankment against a mottled grey sky, rendered in a muted palette of browns, greys, and blue-grey shadows on cream paper, with footprints breaking the snow on the path and a dark stream visible beneath the bridge. A red seal appears in the lower right and vertical Japanese characters in the upper left; the work is titled *Goryo Kaku* by Maeda Masao, a mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print), date unknown.