Jo Nangu Shrine Kyoto

A veranda framed by a black wooden lintel and a shoji screen looks out onto a rock garden of large grey boulders, low clipped shrubs, and clustered cycads or palm trees against a rounded green hillside. The interior floor is rendered in flat yellow with a blue-bordered mat and a small lacquered box in the corner, while a low yellow bench and rope fencing sit within the garden beyond. Colors are printed in flat planes of green, grey, ochre, and yellow; the composition is signed in pencil below the image, with the title, seal, and date inscribed in the right margin. Mokuhanga woodblock print, "Jo Nangu Shrine Kyoto," by Tomikichiro Tokuriki, year unknown.