1965 Autumn Catalog

1965 Autumn Catalog is a Japanese woodblock print associated with Kaoru Saito, documented through [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org's aggregated archive of mid-twentieth-century prints from the Red Lantern Shop catalog. The work appears in the 1965 autumn catalog of the Red Lantern Shop, a Tokyo-based dealer that played a significant role in introducing modern Japanese woodblock prints to international collectors during the postwar decades. The catalog format itself is part of the historical record, capturing how [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) (creative print) and contemporary woodblock artists circulated their work to a global audience during a period when Japanese prints were being rediscovered and reappraised by Western markets. As with much of the material gathered through ukiyo-e.org from the Japanese Art Open Database, this entry preserves a snapshot of how dealers presented contemporary woodblock production to collectors in the 1960s, when the sosaku-hanga movement had reached maturity and was being collected alongside the older ukiyo-e tradition. The print reflects the values that defined sosaku-hanga: the artist's direct involvement in designing, carving, and printing the work, in contrast to the collaborative workshop model of earlier ukiyo-e. Without firm attribution details beyond the dealer record, the work is best appreciated as a representative document of the Red Lantern Shop's 1965 offerings and the broader contemporary woodblock landscape in which Kaoru Saito's name circulated. Collectors interested in the social and commercial history of postwar Japanese printmaking will find pieces like this catalog entry useful for tracing how individual artists were marketed, priced, and positioned during the years when the international audience for modern Japanese woodblock was taking shape. Source: ukiyo-e.org (Japanese Art Open Database).