Autumn Flowers (17/69)

An autumn floral composition by Mayumi Oda — the season's flowers placed in relation to her characteristic goddess figures or rendered as the primary subject through which seasonal and spiritual meaning is expressed. Autumn in Oda's seasonal work carries the Japanese tradition's emotional weight — the awareness of beauty at its most intense just before it passes — while also invoking the specific flowers of the Japanese autumn: chrysanthemum, bush clover, cosmos, and the vivid foliage of maples. Her seasonal compositions transform traditional Japanese flower iconography through the feminist Buddhist vision that gives even botanical subjects a charge of sacred feminine energy.