Hibarigaoka Hill

A grassy hillside dominates the composition, rendered in golden-tan and rust-red striations that sweep diagonally across the slope; a gnarled, pale tree with sparse red-berried branches stands at upper left against a bare cream sky, with a low cluster of rocks and shrubs on the ridgeline to the right. In the lower right, a small silhouetted figure carrying a shouldered stick or gun walks with a dog across the field, both rendered as flat dark brown shapes. *Hibarigaoka Hill* by Mizushima Nihofu, mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print).