Portrait of the Poet Hagiwara Sakutaro

A close-up portrait of a middle-aged man with dark, curly disheveled hair, shown in three-quarter view with his head tilted downward and gaze cast to the side. His deeply lined face is rendered in pale flesh tones with heavy dark eyebrows, hooded eyes, and pursed lips, set against a mottled grey background; he wears a plain dark brown robe covering his shoulders. Onchi Koshiro's 1943 color woodblock print "Portrait of the Poet Hagiwara Sakutaro" presents an intimate, somber mood through its muted brown and grey palette.