Autumn leaves
- Date:
- Not set
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$1,500–$10,000. Common prints: $1,500–$3,000. Key value factors: Settai's literary elegance and refined technique have a niche but devoted following among collectors of Japanese aestheticism.
Brilliant autumn foliage fills this oban woodblock print by Komura Settai, its reds and golds rendered through the layered color impressions of the shin-hanga process. Autumn leaves hold a central place in Japanese aesthetics, celebrated in poetry since the Man'yoshu anthology and woven into textile, lacquer, and painting traditions for over a millennium. Settai treats the subject with his typical economy of line, allowing the color itself to carry the emotional weight of the season's brief, intense beauty. The composition likely draws on the momijigari tradition of leaf viewing, translating the experience of standing beneath a canopy of maples into the compressed space of a woodblock print.
Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi
1946
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Autumn leaves was created by Komura Settai (小村雪岱) in Not set.
Autumn leaves was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (Not set).
Autumn leaves depicts autumn foliage.
