Suburban in Sapporo

A pale dirt road curves through fields toward a cluster of white-walled houses with brown and grey gabled roofs, set against a tree-covered hill whose foliage is patched with red, orange, and yellow amid green. The sky above is soft blue-grey with a few pale clouds, and the foreground fields are rendered in loose strokes of tan, ochre, and green; no figures appear in the scene. The artist's signature is visible in the lower left corner. Migishi Kōtarō painted this oil on canvas view of a suburban area of Sapporo in 1927.