3/4 Rosette with Fleur de Lis from Center

This print isolates a three-quarter rosette motif from an ancient Japanese roof tile, the fleur-de-lis at its center pointing toward unexpected connections between Japanese and Western decorative vocabularies. Hiratsuka spent years studying and printing tile designs from Japan's medieval and ancient buildings, treating these architectural details as autonomous aesthetic objects. The 1930s work is part of his extended roof tile series.