Untitled

A second untitled mokuhanga catalogued under Iantcheva's Mokumap entry, this sheet documents her continued engagement with the Japanese water-based woodblock process from her studio in Kuurne. Without an assigned title, the work is read primarily through its material vocabulary: a key block carrying drawn line, colour blocks registered by [kento](/glossary/kento) marks, and pigment bound with nori paste and brushed onto the block before being transferred to [washi](/glossary/washi) under the pressure of the [baren](/glossary/baren). Contemporary mokuhanga of this kind frequently sits between abstraction and observed motif, with practitioners exploiting the medium's capacity for translucent layering, soft-edged [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi), and the subtle embossing that emerges where dampened paper meets carved wood. As a member of the Mokuhanga Magic network, Iantcheva contributes to a European research community that treats the technique as a living contemporary medium rather than a historical reproduction practice. This print, paired with her other Mokumap entry, indicates a body of work developed within that collaborative Bulgarian-Belgian context rather than within the publisher-driven workshop model of historical Japanese printmaking.