Unknown- traditional Japanese houses amid autumn trees
by Ido Masao
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
- Image courtesy of
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Ido Masao
This print presents a grouping of traditional Japanese houses — machiya, minka, or vernacular residential structures — set within autumn foliage, the architectural rooflines intersecting with the seasonal color of deciduous canopies. Autumn in Ido Masao's mokuhanga requires the most complex color sequences: the simultaneous rendering of crimson maples, golden ginkgos, and deeper russet oaks demands close registration across numerous blocks to build the variegated texture of kōyō. The houses function as compositional anchors, their geometric forms providing visual stability against the organic dispersal of leaf color. Ido's technical care with architectural subjects means that roof tile patterns, timber framing, and shōji details remain legible even when the image is dominated by surrounding vegetation. The subject participates in an elegiac documentary impulse — recording the integration of traditional architecture and cultivated nature that defined older Japanese residential environments, and that Ido documented persistently across four decades of sustained observation.
Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi
1946
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Unknown- traditional Japanese houses amid autumn trees was created by Ido Masao (井堂雅夫).
Unknown- traditional Japanese houses amid autumn trees depicts autumn foliage.
