Man and Bird

A bearded man with a striped grey-and-white beard and hair, wide dark eyes, and a tan face fills the frame against a solid teal-green background, his body rendered as a flat black silhouette. Cradled in his crossed arms at the center of the composition is a striped grey-and-white bird with a black eye, its beak open and tilted upward toward the man's face. "Man and Bird," a color woodblock print by Umetaro Azechi, 1955, edition 73/100.