Byodo-in Lakeside

A stone lantern stands beside a lakeside walkway, its concentric ripples spreading across the water in tight carved rings; a tuft of iris or reed-like plants grows at the water's edge, its form doubled in reflection below. Rendered entirely in black and white, the print uses dense parallel lines and stark contrast to render the wooden building facade, paved steps, and rock-edged shore, with a red artist's seal stamped in the lower left corner. The composition splits into a light, detailed upper register of architecture and lantern against a dark, more abstract lower register of rippling water.

Byodo-in Lakeside, Hiratsuka Un'ichi, mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock), date unknown.