Sui

"Sui" can be read as 水 (water), 粋 (refined elegance), or 翠 (kingfisher green), among other associations; Yoshikawa's titling often privileges sound and connotation over literal denotation. In an abstract mokuhanga of this kind, a "Sui" association would likely be carried through cool blue-green color choices, shapes whose contours suggest fluidity, or compositional pacing built on layered planes. Each block in the multi-block process contributes one color or shape, hand-pressed with the baren onto dampened washi to set the water-based pigment into the paper's fibers. The result is a flat, matte color surface unlike the glossier finish of oil-based relief printing. Sui exemplifies Yoshikawa's commitment to non-representational composition within the mokuhanga tradition, which historically served landscape, bijin-ga, and kacho-e subjects but which, in her hands across her independent practice, has been redirected toward abstract image-making organized around shape and chromatic intensity.