Behind the market square

A curving street pavement, rendered in angular blue-gray flagstones, sweeps through a dense row of half-timbered wooden buildings whose dark brown crossbeams frame panels of olive-green and mauve. Two utility poles with wires rise against a flat turquoise sky near a taller building at the right, while the composition's heavy black outlines and faceted, fractured planes give the empty street a stark, geometric mood. The print is signed "T. ONO" in red at the lower left, consistent with the attribution to Tadashige Ono, titled *Behind the Market Square*, a mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print).