“Forest of Fallen Trees”

"Forest of Fallen Trees" suggests a woodland interior with downed trunks crossing the picture plane — a less conventional subject than the rural lanes and station views Mibugawa typically chooses. The composition would likely depend on layered horizontals and diagonals built up across multiple blocks: a keyblock for trunk outlines and bark texture, then colour blocks for moss greens, exposed timber browns, and the muted understorey light that filters through a broken canopy. Mokuhanga handles such textured woodland surfaces through carved marks rather than additive detail, so the visible grain of the cherrywood block can read directly into the print. Among Mibugawa's seasonal landscapes, woodland clearings appear as a recurring subset, often pitched in a quieter, less postcard-like register than his town views. The print belongs to the strand of his work that sits closest to traditional sōsaku-hanga practice — artist-carved and self-printed at the Unsōdō workshop in Kyoto, treating place as encountered rather than catalogued.