Duodji from Mt. Reindeer (Tonakai-yama no Duoji) — Weaving

"Duodji" is the Sámi word for traditional handicraft, encompassing weaving, woodwork, leather, and reindeer-horn carving; "Tonakai-yama" translates as Reindeer Mountain. The "Weaving" subtitle situates this print within a series engaging Sámi craft of northern Scandinavia, with this image focused specifically on textile practice. The subject lends itself to a composition built around interlaced structure — the woven grid translated into the registered overlays of multi-block printing, where each pass of colour functions analogously to a thread. Furusaka's water-based pigments and her own cultivated indigo would lend the work the muted tonal depth typical of mokuhanga, suited to the natural fibre palette of duodji weaving. The print belongs to an outward-looking strand of her practice that draws comparative connections between Japanese material culture and the indigenous craft traditions of other regions, treating both as practices where material origin — animal, plant, mineral — shapes the resulting form. It is an unusual subject within a body of work otherwise rooted in Japanese landscape and lore.