Japanese garden in Autumn - Emperor's Garden 2 — 秋の庭園風景

"Japanese Garden in Autumn — Emperor's Garden" (Aki no teien fukei) depicts the imperial garden during autumn's peak color, when the deliberate compositions of Japanese landscape design are enhanced by the seasonal transformation of the plantings. Imperial gardens, designed over centuries to achieve particular visual effects at each season, are masterworks of the horticultural art that Bakufu's careful eye could appreciate. The autumn maples, stone lanterns, and water features of such gardens offer the same rich subject matter as his natural history prints, only organized by human intention.