A Mountain man With Bird

A stylized, close-cropped print of a mountain man rendered as a tall grey block-like form with a single dark eye, a striped white-and-grey beard or hood, and vertical white hatching along the top of the head; he holds an axe in one hand and extends the other arm, on which a black-and-white striped bird with a red-marked head perches. Behind them, pale triangular mountain peaks sit against a flat blue sky. The palette is limited to grey, black, white, indigo-blue, and small accents of red, giving the scene a bold, graphic, flattened composition. Woodblock print by Umetaro Azechi, "A Mountain Man With Bird," year unknown.