Black-and-white Japanese woodblock print of a patterned robed figure on a wooden floor beside a lattice screen, with figures and a head on checkered cloth below.

Legend of Taishi, Scene 2, Japanese woodblock print

A black-and-white woodblock print in sumizuri-e style showing a richly patterned robed figure standing on a raised wooden floor beside a lattice screen. Below, a reclining figure and a severed head lie among checkered cloth, with a sword resting on the floorboards.

Artist: Okumura Masanobu
Date: c. 1705/06
Medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1215 px

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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection

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