Cherry Blossoms at Night

What you see

In a tall, narrow format, a young woman in a brown kimono patterned with rings stands beside a large stone lantern on the left. She holds a brush in one hand and a strip of paper in the other, leaning toward the light. Cherry branches in bloom open above her, and higher up a dark pine stands against a sky sprinkled with stars.

Nearly everything is darkness: blackish greens, grays and the brown of the kimono. Yellow light spills from the lantern’s small paper window and reaches the blossoms, her face and the paper. Seek out the flame drawn inside the lantern, another small lamp glowing at lower right, the red lining of the kimono and the orange pin in her hair.