The Four Seasons

This collection of woodblock prints celebrates the seasons and is designed as a Japanese-style accordion-fold book with open binding and slipcased with a booklet for the text.

Embracing seasonal change is an important part of Japan's native belief system and an enduring theme of its creative expression. Japanese artists-including Hokusai, Hiroshige, Harunobu, and many others-have long celebrated the endless cycle and rhythm of nature and the fleeting transience and beauty of the seasons, depicting commo