Sakurada Gate

A wide moat of pale blue-green water fills the foreground, its surface marked with short horizontal ripple strokes, bordered on the left by a sloped grassy embankment with dark green hatching and a wind-bent tree with rust-orange foliage at its crest. Across the water sits a low white gatehouse with a dark tiled roof set into pale gray stone ramparts, flanked by clusters of trees and a few distant rooftops and a tower under a pale, faintly clouded sky. A vertical text cartouche appears in the upper right corner; the piece is titled Sakurada Gate, by Hiratsuka Un'ichi, mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock), year unknown.