Untitled (hirezaki-eiho)

This untitled woodblock print by Hirezaki Eiho (1881–1968) is one of many in his body of work that awaits descriptive cataloguing. Eiho's technical mastery of the woodblock medium — his ability to produce flowing, warm lines with precision and consistency across an edition — is evident even in works whose subjects cannot be identified from their current database records. His training in nihonga painting gave him a command of line quality that translated naturally to the woodblock medium, where the precision of the carved key block determines the elegance of the printed figure.