South Wind

Four fishermen occupy the deck of a wooden boat on choppy dark-blue water, with a hazy coastal headland on the horizon under a pale blue sky with scattered clouds. At center a bare-chested man in a red wrapped cloth stands pulling a blue cloth over his head; to the left a bearded man in a white robe and head wrap sits smoking a pipe, while in the foreground a man in a dark garment crouches beside jugs and coiled rope, and at right a young man in a checked shirt and straw hat sits barefoot with his arms around his knees. Sunlight falls strongly across the pale wooden planks of the deck, and a mast and its rigging rise at center against the sky. Oil on canvas, "South Wind" by Wada Sanzo, 1907.