Biography
Michika Noda (born 2002, Kanagawa Prefecture) is among the youngest Japanese woodcut printmakers active in the 68th CWAJ Print Show 2025 catalogue and is therefore one of the principal recently-emerging voices of the Japanese print scene. She is a current student or recent graduate at Musashino Art University in Tokyo (武蔵野美術大学), one of the leading Japanese print-training institutions, and is based in Tokyo. Her single CWAJ-2025 work — 'What Has Ended,' a 79 x 59 cm woodcut — was assigned print number 112 in the 68th CWAJ Print Show catalogue.
The 68th CWAJ Print Show 2025 — held in October 2025 at Daikanyama Hillside Forum in Tokyo — is the most important annual selection-and-sale showcase for contemporary Japanese print and is the principal commercial entry point for emerging Japanese printmakers. Selection into the show requires juried review of submitted works; inclusion in the catalogue at age 23 (Noda's age at exhibition, given her 2002 birth year) marks her as a strong early-career voice within the Tokyo-Geidai-Musashino axis.
The woodcut technical lineage Noda inherits at Musashino Art University traces through the postwar sosaku-hanga generation (Munakata Shiko, Yoshida Toshi) and the contemporary practitioners Yoshida Fumi and Kawachi Shigeyuki who currently teach in the Musashino program. The CWAJ-selected work 'What Has Ended' presents a moderately scaled (79 x 59 cm) sheet whose title-and-image relationship suggests a meditative engagement with closure, ending, and the threshold between presence and absence — themes that recur in the contemporary Japanese woodcut tradition's encounter with the everyday world.
Further biographical details on Noda — exhibition history beyond the 2025 CWAJ Print Show, formal training milestones, awards, gallery representation — are not currently surfaced through English-language search. Her biographical positioning is provisional but defensible: the CWAJ catalogue documents her as a 2002-born Kanagawa native currently studying at Musashino Art University, and these are the principal facts on which a 2026 print-database entry can rest.
Key Facts
- Active Period
- 2002
- Nationality
- 🇯🇵Japan
- Movement
- Contemporary Mokuhanga
- Works Indexed
- 1
Frequently Asked Questions
Michika Noda (born 2002, Kanagawa Prefecture) is among the youngest Japanese woodcut printmakers active in the 68th CWAJ Print Show 2025 catalogue and is therefore one of the principal recently-emerging voices of the Japanese print scene. She is a current student or recent graduate at Musashino Art University in Tokyo (武蔵野美術大学), one of the leading Japanese print-training institutions, and is based in Tokyo. Her single CWAJ-2025 work — 'What Has Ended,' a 79 x 59 cm woodcut — was assigned print number 112 in the 68th CWAJ Print Show catalogue.
Michika Noda was active born in 2002. They were associated with the Contemporary Mokuhanga movement.
Michika Noda's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.