$500–$4,000. Common works: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Hayashi's Paris-trained Fauvist style gives his work cross-cultural appeal. His death during WWII at 50 limits available works.
Light filtering through a dense canopy of trees, rendered by Waichi Hayashi as an experience of radiance within enclosure. The forest here is not dark or threatening but luminous, its layered foliage transforming sunlight into something visible and almost tangible—a brilliance that fills the spaces between trunks and branches. Hayashi's woodblock technique uses overlapping transparent color passes to build the sense of light penetrating leaf layers, creating depth through accumulation rather than perspective. The [oban](/glossary/oban) format provides enough space for the forest's vertical grandeur, the tall trees rising from the bottom edge toward a canopy that nearly fills the composition.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Brilliance of the Forest was created by Waichi Hayashi (林和一).
Brilliance of the Forest depicts landscapes and trees.
