Pictures of four seasons

This work treats the shiki — spring, summer, autumn, winter — likely either as a single multi-panel composition or as a coordinated suite of four sheets. The four-seasons theme structures Japanese visual culture from medieval poetry anthologies and screen painting through Edo-period [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e), and Ido's career-long record of Kyoto's seasonal cycle finds direct expression in this organising frame. Technically, such works require palettes that differentiate each season while maintaining compositional coherence: cool whites and indigos for winter, soft pinks for spring cherry blossom, saturated greens for summer foliage, and burnt orange against crimson for autumn maple. The print likely employs careful registration across many blocks to build seasonal atmosphere through kasane-zuri layered printings, with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) handling skies and water surfaces. The work distils what Ido pursued individually across hundreds of separate Kyoto views — the city's identity as a place defined by its calendar.