Untitled (hodo-nishimura)

An untitled Nishimura Hodo woodblock print — the twenty-first in a sequence of unidentified works from his body of output. His shin-hanga prints were produced within the commercial framework of the 1930s Japanese art market, where publishers provided the infrastructure of professional carving, printing, and distribution that allowed artists to focus on design while maintaining the high standards of technical execution that defined the movement's aesthetic ambitions.