Owl

A large owl with tufted ear feathers, a diamond-patterned breast, and round eyes rendered as concentric black-and-white circles perches on a gnarled branch at the center of this black-and-cream woodblock print. Behind it, an angular black shape fills the upper right like a night sky, a crescent-moon outline sits in the upper left, and silhouetted pine boughs flank the owl on both sides, all in bold black linework against the cream paper, with a red seal stamped at lower right within the block. Below the image the sheet is pencil-signed "Un'ichi Hiratsuka" with "1967" inscribed at lower right; the work is titled Owl, by Hiratsuka Un'ichi, in mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock).