Late Autumn at Ichikawa — 市川の晩秋

Ichikawa lies on the Edo River in Chiba Prefecture, directly east of Tokyo, and its riverside scenery—willow-lined banks, wooden bridges, and the broad river plain—appears in several Hasui compositions. Late autumn in this context denotes the period after peak maple color, when foliage has thinned and bare branches dominate the canopy. Hasui's kōban or ōban format print likely presents the riverbank from a low vantage, emphasizing the skeletal tracery of leafless trees against a cold pale sky or leaden water surface. The restrained palette typical of late-autumn subjects—grey, brown, sienna, and muted blue—required fewer color blocks than his more chromatic spring or summer prints, but demanded subtlety in tonal separation to distinguish sky from water from distant bank. This impression is one of multiple known states or print runs of the Ichikawa late-autumn subject, reflecting the design's commercial success and continued publication by Watanabe across different editions.