Published 1906, 12 Months of Working Horses (#12) belongs to 12 Months of Working Horses. The series follows horses through a year of transport, agriculture, ceremony, and seasonal labor. It records the animal’s continuing economic importance at a moment when modern mechanization was beginning to alter Japanese work and mobility.
Horses remained essential to transport, agriculture, military identity, and ceremony even as railways and mechanized systems expanded in Meiji Japan. The catalog identifies forest, horse, landscape, men, and river among the principal motifs. Gekkō uses their relationship to clarify action, season, setting, and narrative emphasis rather than treating them as interchangeable decoration.
As a book or album image, the composition was designed to be encountered in sequence and in relation to text, facing pages, and the physical act of turning leaves.
Additional information
| Size | Surimono |
|---|---|
| Subjects | forest, horse, landscape, men, river |
| Year Published | 1906 |
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