Elf

An abstract woodblock print (mokuhanga) titled "Elf" by Takumi Shinagawa (year unknown), dominated by a large vertical lozenge-shaped form filled with a mottled, striated texture of black, white, and gray marks, with small patches of dusty pink near its center and ochre-yellow at its upper edges. This form sits against a dark, mottled charcoal-black background, with a flat, angular dark teal shape along the left edge of the composition. The sheet has a wide cream margin below the image bearing pencil inscriptions, including the artist's signature at lower right.