IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print represents Drayse-Alonso's contribution to the Americas regional exhibition at the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference, held in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture. As an IMC submission, the work would have been produced using the water-based mokuhanga technique that defines the conference's scope: pigments mixed with rice paste (nori) and water, brushed onto carved cherry or shina blocks, and transferred to dampened [washi](/glossary/washi) using a [baren](/glossary/baren). Echizen washi, made in the host region for over fifteen hundred years, is among the papers commonly selected by contemporary mokuhanga practitioners for its long fibers and registration stability across multiple impressions. Without further documentation of the image itself, the print's specific subject and palette remain undescribed here; what is established is its placement within the Americas cohort of an exhibition assembling work from practitioners across continents. Drayse-Alonso's participation situates her within the contemporary international mokuhanga community organized through the IMA, whose triennial conferences in Tokyo, Honolulu, Nara, and Echizen have served as the principal convening point for water-based woodblock printmakers since 2011.