by Saito Kaoru
$200–$1,500. Common prints: $200–$500. Key value factors: Saito Kaoru's prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors of Japanese creative prints.
The letter "C" appended to the title suggests this is one of several variations on the twilight theme, with Saito exploring different aspects of the transitional hour between day and night across multiple prints. Twilight's defining quality is its shifting, unstable light, a condition that changes minute by minute as the sun drops below the horizon and the sky cycles through its color sequence. Saito's woodblock rendering must fix one moment of this progression into a permanent image, choosing a specific point in twilight's arc to commit to paper. The print likely explores the tonal range available at that liminal hour, when shadows deepen and colors lose their daytime saturation but have not yet surrendered entirely to darkness.
Woodblock print
Teradomari no yau
1921
Color woodblock print; oban
![Mount Fuji on a Moonlit Night, Kawai Bridge (Tsukiyo no Fuji [Kawaibashi]), from the series "Selection of Views of the Tokaido (Tokaido fukei senshu)" by Kawase Hasui](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d0960668-1e73-339a-b182-fb995a54bff0/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
1947
Color woodblock print; oban
March 1933
Color woodblock print; oban
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Twilight C was created by Saito Kaoru (斎藤薫).
Twilight C depicts night scenes.
