Bird's wake

A flock of angular, calligraphic black birds streaks across a pale blue sky above a jagged range of deep red, fissured peaks or cliffs; below, a dark foreground opens onto a mottled black, white, and blue channel of water that cuts diagonally toward the viewer, with one pale blue bird swooping low near the water's edge. The palette is limited to indigo-blue, brick red, black, and white, built from rough, scratchy woodgrain textures rather than smooth outlines, giving the whole scene an abstract, jagged quality. The artist's red seal/signature "n.Ono" appears in the lower left; medium is mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print), title "Bird's Wake," by Tadashige Ono, year unknown.