Three Woodblock-printed postcards

This work comprises three small-format mokuhanga postcards, likely issued as a set on washi cut to standard hagaki dimensions. Postcard prints (ehagaki) were a common secondary output for shin-hanga and sosaku-hanga artists during the Taisho and Showa periods, allowing publishers to distribute affordable original prints and serving as collectible miniatures. Each card likely carries a self-contained image — possibly a landscape, figure study, or seasonal motif — with simplified compositions calibrated to the small surface and the limited number of color blocks economical at that scale. Wada's postcard work would have applied his characteristic firm keyblock outlines and flat color planes, drawing on his training under Kuroda Seiki at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. As a format, postcards permitted Wada to extend his documentary interest in Japanese life into private correspondence and personal use, miniaturizing the observational sensibility that produced his larger Showa Shokugyo Emaki occupational prints.