Vase And Fruit — ぼとくだもの

Vase And Fruit is a Japanese woodblock print by Toru Mabuchi catalogued through [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e).org from the Japanese Art Open Database. The composition belongs squarely to Mabuchi's still-life practice, presenting a vase together with fruit in a domestic arrangement that the artist returned to in many variations. The subject is among the most traditional in Japanese and East Asian painting, with antecedents in literati ink work and decorative bird-and-flower painting, and Mabuchi reframes it through the design vocabulary of the [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) movement. Working as a creative-print artist, Mabuchi designed, carved, and printed the blocks himself, and the resulting surface registers the deliberate textures of woodblock printing alongside flat color planes and crisp contours. Vase And Fruit foregrounds Mabuchi's interest in volume and contour, with the rounded forms of the vessel and the fruit set into balanced relation across the picture plane. The print's subdued palette and confident shapes align with the broader still-life sensibility that Mabuchi developed across his career, in which familiar household subjects are treated with the same care and design discipline as landscape or figure studies. Documented through the Japanese Art Open Database and aggregated by ukiyo-e.org, Vase And Fruit offers researchers and collectors a representative example of Mabuchi's mature still-life work and of the role that domestic subjects played in the postwar Japanese woodblock tradition.