Edo-ma

The title refers to the Edo-ma tatami standard, the smaller mat dimension (roughly 880 × 1760 mm) historically used in eastern Japan, distinguished from the Kyoma sizing of the Kansai region. Endo's 2012 print, made during her MA in Oil Painting and Printmaking, takes this domestic measurement as its subject — likely an interior organised around the rectangular grid of tatami, fusuma sliding panels, or the joinery of a traditional washitsu. Cut from a single block and pulled in [sumi](/glossary/sumi) alone on [washi](/glossary/washi), the print depends on incised line to articulate the long parallel edges of mat binding and the orthogonal logic of post-and-beam construction. As one of her earlier dated works, Edo-ma already demonstrates the monochrome single-block discipline that would come to define her practice, treating an architectural module rather than a figure or object as the carved subject.