Artemis (Arutemisu)

Artemis — the Greek goddess of the hunt, the moon, and the wilderness — appears in Hagiwara's work as one of the mythological subjects that occupied him in the 1960s, her attributes (bow, moon, animals) rendered in the bold carved surfaces of his sosaku-hanga practice. The edition stamp (12/50) marks this as a limited-edition work intended for collectors rather than a mass-market print, and the careful edition control reflects the international print market that Hagiwara navigated alongside his domestic reputation. The goddess of the untamed world translated into a medium that required the most controlled physical craft.