Ayomi

This second print sharing the title Ayomi suggests a variant or companion to the first, a practice Hodaka used periodically — issuing related compositions in different color schemes, formats, or states. The subject again references his daughter Ayomi Yoshida, born in 1958, who would later carry the family printmaking practice into a fourth generation. The composition likely mirrors or reworks the formal vocabulary of its companion, possibly with a shifted palette, alternate cropping, or substitution of photo-etched elements. Hodaka frequently combined traditional mokuhanga — color blocks hand-printed by baren on washi — with photographic transfer techniques to layer image and abstraction. Producing two related prints under one title aligns with the experimental approach of postwar sōsaku-hanga (creative print) artists, who treated the print as a site for compositional iteration rather than fixed reproduction. The pair situates Ayomi as a recurring motif within Hodaka's family-inflected work.