$500–$3,000. Common prints: $500–$1,000. Key value factors: Okamoto's colorful landscape prints are modestly priced and accessible to beginning collectors.
The title Autumn Adagio pairs a season with a musical term denoting a slow, stately tempo, and Okamoto's woodblock print translates that pairing into visual form. Autumn foliage fills the composition with warm reds, oranges, and golds, but the arrangement is unhurried, each leaf cluster given space to breathe within the design. Okamoto often titles his prints with musical references, treating the relationship between color and rhythm as something more than metaphorical. The [oban](/glossary/oban) format gives the image enough scale for the viewer to feel immersed in the foliage rather than observing it from a distance. Printed in the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) tradition where the artist controls every stage, the work retains a handmade warmth that mechanical reproduction cannot replicate.
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
Autumn Adagio was created by Ryusei Okamoto (岡本隆生).
Autumn Adagio depicts autumn foliage.
