Tree trunks and blue sky

This mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print), Onchi Koshiro's *Tree trunks and blue sky* (date unknown), presents a semi-abstract landscape in flat planes of indigo-blue sky and mottled rust-brown ground. Along the undulating ridge where the two meet, a row of thin vertical cream lines suggests a line of bare tree trunks, while the sky above is scattered with white crescent and V-shaped marks, some clustered as if birds in flight. Small pale-blue X marks appear in the lower-left of the brown foreground, and a cream margin borders the composition; no figures are shown.