Mountain Climber Holding Bird

A bearded man with a striped cap, gray-toned skin, and large dark eyes is shown half-length against a blue-green sky, holding a striped bird with a hooked beak against his chest and gripping a white knife-like implement in his other hand. The figure and background are built from angular, faceted patches of black, white, gray, ochre, red, and green, giving the composition a fractured, geometric quality; a red artist's seal appears in the lower right corner. This woodblock print, titled *Mountain Climber Holding Bird*, is by Umetaro Azechi; the year is unknown.