$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.
A bird's-eye perspective looking down over a forest canopy, as though the viewer is suspended in air above the treetops. Waichi Hayashi shifts from the ground-level vantage typical of forest scenes to an aerial viewpoint that transforms familiar woodland into abstract pattern—an undulating surface of greens, shadows, and occasional clearings. The title suggests the experience of flight itself, the exhilarating disorientation of seeing a known landscape from an impossible angle. Hayashi's woodblock carving translates the forest canopy's texture into rhythmic repetitions of leaf-cluster forms, each one slightly different, accumulating into a living, breathing surface.
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.
Flying over Forest was created by Waichi Hayashi (林和一).
Flying over Forest depicts landscapes, trees, and abstract.
