Stone Flooring

A stone-paved garden path, laid with irregular grey flagstones bordered by neat rectangular edging blocks, runs diagonally from the lower foreground toward a cluster of dark trimmed shrubs at the center distance. A gnarled orange-barked tree arches in from the upper right over dark green clipped bushes, while mounded rust-red rocks or foliage bank the path's left edge and a pale, bare-branched sapling rises at left against a grey sky with dark horizontal cloud bands. The palette is limited to olive greens, rust orange, grey, and black, giving the quiet garden scene a flat, graphic quality; the print is dated 1904, titled "Stone Flooring" by Maeda Masao, in mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock).