Riu

Without a kanji rendering, "Riu" suggests several possible readings — ryū as 流 (flow), 龍 (dragon), or 柳 (willow). In Yoshikawa's abstract idiom the title most plausibly cues a sense of motion or current rather than a literal subject: long sweeping forms, diagonal color planes, or curving registers built from successive printings. The mokuhanga procedure — carve, ink, register, press, repeat for each block — suits compositions where directional movement emerges from the layering of differently shaped planes rather than from a single drawn line. Yoshikawa's work avoids the tonal bokashi gradients common to Edo-period landscape printmaking, preferring crisp boundaries between color zones, so any sense of flow in Riu would be carried by edge rhythm and color juxtaposition. The print sits within the artist's mature abstract practice based in Nagoya, where the vocabulary of bold shapes against dense backgrounds has remained consistent across her independent career.