Title: 苗代 (Seedbed).
Artist: Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981).
Signed & Dated: Signed and titled in pencil to margins. 苗代 (Seedbed), 奥山儀八郎自摺 (Okuyama Gihachiro jizuri (self-printed)). Artist seal to lower right of image. Circa 1960/70’s.
Medium: Woodblock Print.
Paper Size: H: 48.50cm x W: 24.25cm.
Condition: Excellent. Image mint, small crease to lower image edge. Please refer to photos / Contact for any further questions & condition report.
Notes: Gihachiro Okuyama’s 苗代 (Seedbed) captures a timeless farming scene in rural Japan centering on a farmer pushing her wheelbarrow loaded with rice shoots (稲苗, inanae) ready for transplanting into the rice paddies. Her layered clothing, including a patterned apron and traditional headscarf, shields her from the sun, reflecting the practical attire worn by agricultural workers in the fields. In the distance, other farmers are in fields - Okuyama offering a poignant tribute to the cycles of planting and harvest & the collective labour which supports Japan’s agricultural traditions. *(Pencil Signed) - Of Okuyama’s rarer, larger-sized, pencil-signed edition.
Title: 苗代 (Seedbed).
Artist: Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-1981).
Signed & Dated: Signed and titled in pencil to margins. 苗代 (Seedbed), 奥山儀八郎自摺 (Okuyama Gihachiro jizuri (self-printed)). Artist seal to lower right of image. Circa 1960/70’s.
Medium: Woodblock Print.
Paper Size: H: 48.50cm x W: 24.25cm.
Condition: Excellent. Image mint, small crease to lower image edge. Please refer to photos / Contact for any further questions & condition report.
Notes: Gihachiro Okuyama’s 苗代 (Seedbed) captures a timeless farming scene in rural Japan centering on a farmer pushing her wheelbarrow loaded with rice shoots (稲苗, inanae) ready for transplanting into the rice paddies. Her layered clothing, including a patterned apron and traditional headscarf, shields her from the sun, reflecting the practical attire worn by agricultural workers in the fields. In the distance, other farmers are in fields - Okuyama offering a poignant tribute to the cycles of planting and harvest & the collective labour which supports Japan’s agricultural traditions. *(Pencil Signed) - Of Okuyama’s rarer, larger-sized, pencil-signed edition.
