White House

"White House" is a closely related architectural study to Hodaka Yoshida's "White Two-storey House," treating a single building as a frontal, near-symmetrical plane rather than a structure set in space. The composition is built from broad rectangles of off-white printed against a contrasting ground, with a few darker blocks used for openings, frames, and roof line. Hodaka's interest here is the building as pattern: the rhythm of windows, the proportion of wall to roof, the silhouette against sky. Printing on washi with multiple cherry blocks, he relied on careful kento registration to keep the geometric edges crisp, occasionally using bokashi at the upper margin to suggest light without modeling form. The subject sits in the lineage of the architectural prints Hiroshi Yoshida made of European castles and Japanese temples, but Hodaka's reduction of detail and emphasis on planar flatness places the work firmly within the sosaku-hanga creative-print sensibility he embraced as his career matured.