Moor Hen

Two dark grey moor hens with red-and-yellow bills and slender legs wade in rippled blue water beneath large lotus leaves in green with mottled orange-brown edges; a single water droplet rests on one leaf above the birds. The composition is vertical, with the birds placed low in the frame against a pale blue-green water surface marked by concentric ripples, the artist's seal and signature visible at lower left. *Moor Hen*, a woodblock print in ink and color on paper by Komori Soseki, 1928.