Stone Mason

Three stonemasons with sunburned orange-toned skin work stone blocks in an outdoor yard, wearing white shirts, tan trousers, and blue headcloths; two bend over a slab striking chisels with mallets while a third, in a yellow-tan tunic, leans back to strike a chisel held to a block at right. Behind them stand rows of carved stone lanterns, pagodas, and grave markers rendered in grey and white against a dark, sweeping charcoal-toned sky, with a potted plant with pink stems and a broom and mallet lying on the ground in the foreground. "Stone Mason," a color woodblock print by Wada Sanzo, 1940.