Gihachiro Okuyama’s mid-century woodblock “綿畑 (Cotton Fields)” portrays rural Japan in harvest season as pickers bend over rows of flowering cotton, baskets slung on their backs, framed by lush foliage and fields stretching to the horizon - a tranquil homage to traditional farming life. 🌾👩🌾
- Year & Edition: Circa 1960–70s. Self-printed 奥山儀八郎自摺 (Okuyama Gihachiro jizuri); signed & titled in pencil to margins; artist seal lower left.
- Medium: Woodblock.
- Dimensions: Sheet H: 24.00 cm × W: 48.00 cm.
- Condition: Excellent.
- Notes: Okuyama’s rare, larger-sized pencil-signed edition - farmers tend to their harvest, with woven baskets slung over their shoulders - the foreground featuring cotton plants amid full bloom, framed by lush foliage & rows of farmland stretching towards the horizon. Cotton fields have long been vital to traditional agricultural life in Japan - to which this lovely print by Okuyama celebrates this quiet industry and the enduring beauty of traditional farming life.
%E2%80%9D%20portrays%20rural%20Japan%20in%20harvest%20season%20as%20pickers%20bend%20over%20rows%20of%20flowering%20cott...){kind=link}