Changing Seasons

This undated woodblock print titled "Changing Seasons" is one of the rare works in Funasaka's catalog to carry a title referencing the natural world rather than a catalog number or abstract formal description. The title invokes the fundamental rhythm of the Japanese year, the progression through spring, summer, autumn, and winter that has structured Japanese art and literature for over a millennium. Funasaka's geometric vocabulary translates this organic, cyclical subject into the language of planes, angles, and color relationships, abstracting seasonal change into formal transitions between different geometric states. The composition may use color to suggest seasonal progression, with palette shifts standing in for the visual transformations of the natural landscape. The print bridges Funasaka's geometric practice and the deeply rooted Japanese tradition of seasonal awareness, finding common ground between abstract form and natural observation.