Ronin Gallery

This woodblock print is associated with Ronin Gallery, a prominent New York dealer specializing in Japanese prints. Kurosaki's work tagged with warrior imagery suggests a departure from his more common abstract landscapes, engaging instead with the samurai tradition that has deep roots in Japanese printmaking. The ronin, a masterless samurai, carries symbolic weight as a figure of independence and self-determination, qualities that parallel Kurosaki's own position as a sosaku hanga artist who rejected the collaborative workshop system. Whether the print literally depicts a warrior figure or abstracts the concept into non-representational form, it connects Kurosaki's modernist practice to centuries of Japanese visual culture centered on martial subjects.