Autumn at a Farmhouse in Ayashi, Miyagi Prefecture (Nôka no aki [Miyagi-ken Ayashi])

Published under the full title Nôka no aki (Miyagi-ken Ayashi), this print depicts an autumn scene at a farmhouse in Ayashi, located in the western hill country of present-day Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture. The composition likely features a traditional thatched or tiled farmhouse set against autumn-colored hillside vegetation, the rural architecture providing a human-scaled focal point within the broader landscape. Hasui traveled throughout the Tohoku region—northern Honshu—on multiple sketching trips and was drawn to the region's agricultural villages, which retained pre-modern building forms and farming practices into the mid-twentieth century. A farmhouse subject invites Hasui's careful rendering of aged timber, thatch texture, and the low, angled light characteristic of northern Japanese autumns, which arrive earlier and with sharper atmospheric change than in Tokyo. The Watanabe workshop's carvers would have required multiple blocks to capture the varied textures of foliage, architectural surfaces, and sky, with bokashi gradation likely used to convey the cool, receding light of a late-season afternoon.