Niken Tea House

Facade of a wooden tea house rendered in flat blocks of dark brown, mustard, and black beneath a heavy tiled roof with a rounded black ridge cap; a grid of pale, light-catching shoji-style windows fills the center, and a red bench with a white cushion sits before the entrance. Vertical signboards with black Japanese characters hang across the facade and along the right wall, and the artist's signature is inked in the lower left. Saito Kiyoshi, "Niken Tea House," 1963, woodblock print in ink and color on paper, with a mottled grey stone pavement rendered in a stippled texture along the bottom edge.