Untitled work by Hodaka Yoshida

An untitled mokuhanga by Hodaka Yoshida indicates a composition the artist chose to leave unanchored to subject — typical of his abstract work from the 1960s onward, when he set aside the descriptive titles his father Hiroshi favored for landscape prints. Expect a layered field of geometric or biomorphic shapes printed from multiple woodblocks onto kozo washi, with attention to the relationship between flat color blocks, residual wood grain, and the white of the unprinted paper. Hodaka often combined hand-cut blocks with photo-etched zinc plates in this period, producing prints in which mechanical and handcrafted marks share a single sheet; whether or not that technique is present here, the formal strategies — overlapping rectangles, color contrast, and meticulous baren-pressed registration — derive from it. Untitled sheets sit at the experimental edge of his output, alongside the more recognizable architectural and Mexican-influenced series, and document the family studio's shift from representational landscape to international modernism within a single generation.