1965 Autumn Catalog

1965 Autumn Catalog is a Japanese woodblock print associated with Toru Mabuchi through a Red Lantern Shop publication record, catalogued via [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org from the Japanese Art Open Database. The Red Lantern Shop was a Tokyo-based dealer and publisher that played a significant role in promoting [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) artists to international collectors in the mid-twentieth century, particularly among foreign residents and visitors to postwar Japan. The shop issued periodic catalogs that gathered prints by leading creative-print artists, and these catalogs frequently included cover or interior images by Mabuchi alongside contemporaries such as Kiyoshi Saito, Junichiro Sekino, and Un'ichi Hiratsuka. As a sosaku-hanga artist, Mabuchi designed, carved, and printed his blocks himself, and his still-life and landscape subjects fit the audience that Red Lantern Shop catalogs aimed to reach. The 1965 Autumn Catalog record preserved through the Japanese Art Open Database and aggregated by ukiyo-e.org provides a useful documentary trace of how Mabuchi's prints were marketed and distributed during the height of postwar interest in Japanese woodblock work. The item is therefore as important for understanding the commercial and curatorial infrastructure surrounding sosaku-hanga as it is for any single image it contains, offering insight into the print market in which artists like Mabuchi built and sustained their careers.