Teruhide Kato – Nanzenji, Autumn Leaves (Kato Teruhide – Nanzen ji Koyo)

Original woodblock print. The first edition of this design was published between 1990 and 2015. The current print was printed in the Reiwa period (2019 – present).

Teruhide Kato is a master in finding novel compositions, combining diverging colors and in blending realism and abstraction. He utilised his mastery of all these three elements in the print shown here. The viewer is looking from close to the Nanzenji temple, through it, to the colorful autumn leaves of the trees behind, all underneath a full moon that can be seen shining above the surrounding hills.

Image size (excluding margins): 42.0 * 21.0 cm (16.5 * 8.3 in).

The print is in excellent condition.

The pictures shown here are from the print itself.

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Teruhide Kato (1936-2015) was a modern Japanese woodblock artist. He attended the Kyoto Art College. After a successful career as a kimono designer, he became a woodblock artist. Here he used traditional themes in more abstract designs.

Nipponprints has a wide range of his prints. Many of these depict famous places in or around Kyoto. Examples are the 1,000 Torii at Kyoto’s Fushima Inari Shrine, Kinkaku-Ji, Kiyomizu-dera and Yasaka Shrine. Often these are combined with elements of nature, such as the full moon, bamboo, autumn leaves or cherry blossoms. In all, the innovative style of Teruhide Kato is unmistakable.

See an overview of Teruhide Kato's woodblock prints