Keika hyakugiku Pl.25 by Keika Hosegawa

Plate 25 closes in on a quilled, loosely open chrysanthemum whose elongated petals reflex at varying degrees, creating a bloom that is neither fully open nor fully closed — caught mid-gesture. The composition is asymmetric and relaxed: three blooms at different stages of opening are distributed across the vertical format, connected by an arching stem rendered in gestural, confident brushwork. The palette is warm and autumnal — deep gold shading through bronze — consistent with the Meiji tradition of documenting cultivars at peak seasonal colour. Among the twenty-five plates of the 1893 series, this final entry has a particular reflective quality.

The mid-gesture, partially reflexed petals and warm autumnal palette of this plate find their fullest expression on a woven canvas surface. This canvas art print from our Berlin studio uses the textured ground to deepen the gold-to-bronze tonal range, adding a physical warmth and depth that brings this final plate of the series to a fitting, tactile close.