Iwama Kokuma

A man in profile, hair tied in a topknot bound with a pale blue cord, wears a green floral-patterned collar beneath a cream and indigo robe trimmed in gold; he gazes to the right while cradling a severed, bloodied head wrapped in white cloth, its face pale with closed eyes and streaked with red wounds and dark hair. The background is a flat dark grey-black, with a rectangular text cartouche of vertical kanji columns at upper left and a narrower title cartouche in banded purple, red, and cream at upper right, plus a vertical signature cartouche along the right edge. This mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock print) titled "Iwama Kokuma" is by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; the year is unknown.