Another Morning Again

Another Morning Again (今日も朝から), a 2025 woodcut at 33 × 44 cm, takes its title from the colloquial Japanese phrase for the unremarkable repetition of daily waking — literally 'from morning today as well.' The subject is consistent with the contemplative interior or domestic-routine imagery that recurs across contemporary Kansai-region mokuhanga, where the quiet moments of ordinary life serve as the carrier for compositional and tonal experimentation. At this size — close to a horizontal oban format — the print accommodates a discrete vignette rather than a panoramic scene, supporting the kind of close-observed framing the title implies. Hanahara's training under Akira Kurosaki at NHK Culture Center situates her practice within the water-based mokuhanga lineage Kurosaki sustained through his Kyoto Seika University teaching and international workshop circuit, where careful registration across multiple blocks and the controlled bleeding of pigment into washi (often achieved through bokashi gradation and baren burnishing) carries as much expressive weight as drawn line. Selection for the 68th CWAJ Print Show in 2025 places this specific work within the principal Tokyo juried-exhibition channel for mid-career Japanese woodblock practice.