Anticipation (Uchinarumono)

Created in 1961, Anticipation (Uchinarumono) is a color woodblock artist's proof by Chizuko Yoshida, a member of the famous Yoshida printmaking family. The Japanese subtitle uchinarumono means something internal or that which is within, adding a psychological dimension to the English title's suggestion of waiting. Chizuko, who married into the Yoshida family and developed her own abstract visual language distinct from her husband Hodaka's work, uses the woodblock medium here to explore interior emotional states rather than external landscapes. As an artist's proof, this impression was pulled for Yoshida's own reference and evaluation, making it a direct artifact of her studio process and a record of decisions about color, registration, and paper that preceded the final edition.