A Field Clock

This landscape print likely depicts a rural scene centered on a dandelion or similar wildflower gone to seed — the colloquial "field clock" — set against an open agricultural or meadow landscape. Sano's composition probably isolates botanical detail against a broader expanse of sky or field, a format common in mid-twentieth-century shin-hanga-influenced woodblock work. The gradated background tones, likely achieved through bokashi printing, would create atmospheric depth and suggest seasonal transition. The subject bridges kacho-e botanical tradition with the quieter, observational sensibility of postwar Japanese landscape printmaking, where everyday natural phenomena became subjects worthy of careful formal attention.