Observed arrival · 2026-11-11
Takagi Creations’ 72 Seasons of Japan
A two-person studio in the Netherlands makes art prints for the Japanese calendar’s seventy-two short seasons, using imagery drawn from historic natural-history plates.
- For
- Print buyers drawn to Japanese seasonal art
- Worth noticing
- Where Siebold’s plates do not fit a season, the studio says it substitutes a plant or bird suited to that time of year.
Field notes
The calendar is organized as twenty-four solar terms, each split into three roughly five-day seasons, with names tied to small changes in nature. The site links the prints to Siebold’s Flora Japonica and Fauna Japonica, including work by Japanese artist Kawahara Keiga; it identifies those source works as public domain. The studio notes that modern-calendar dates can shift by a day, and flags when an illustration is a seasonal substitute rather than a direct fit.
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