Yuki Kashiwagi

Yuki Kashiwagi (柏木優希) is a Japanese woodblock printmaker whose work combines traditional water-based woodblock printing (mokuhanga) with laser engraving and digital image processing. Printing in relief on washi, she uses the laser to cut fine, uniform pattern into the block where a machined mark best serves the image, while carving the deeper passages by hand — a hybrid approach that sets precise, pattern-driven areas against more lyrical hand-carved ones within a single sheet.

Kashiwagi trained in printmaking at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. She is a member of the Japan Print Association (日本版画協会), one of Japan's principal national printmaking societies, and her prints have also been shown in the CWAJ Print Show, the College Women's Association of Japan's long-running annual exhibition in Tokyo. Her work is held in several public collections in Japan and abroad.

Based in Gunma Prefecture, she has drawn the subjects of her recent prints from the surrounding region, among them the Takatsudo Gorge and the Kiryū Yagibushi festival. Her combination of hand carving and machine-cut mark-making places her among the printmakers exploring how digital fabrication can be folded into the mokuhanga tradition without displacing the hand of the carver.