Wheat harvest

A rural genre subject from outside Inagaki's better-known cat repertoire, this print likely depicts figures cutting or gathering wheat in flat, stylized fields. Inagaki's non-cat work shares the same graphic vocabulary — heavy black outlines, flat color planes, and a refusal of conventional perspective — applied here to the agrarian motifs that recurred across sosaku-hanga in the 1940s and 1950s. The harvest theme connected the creative-print movement to the broader interwar and postwar interest in mingei (folk craft) and the dignity of rural labor. Compositionally, expect figures simplified to angular silhouettes against a banded field of yellows or ochres, with the wheat suggested by repeated short marks cut directly into the block rather than transcribed from observation. The print carries Inagaki's typical attention to surface: the washi paper grain remains visible through the color blocks, and any registration shifts between the kento marks become part of the image rather than defects to be corrected.