Ancient Tree in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

Georgetown's old-growth trees became a recurring subject for Hiratsuka after he settled in Washington, D.C. in the 1960s. This ancient specimen — its gnarled trunk and spreading canopy rendered with the dense knife strokes he reserved for organic textures — stands as a living monument in a neighborhood of Federal-era architecture. The 1965 woodcut demonstrates how fully he transplanted his Japanese landscape sensibility to American soil.