IMC 2024 Echizen submission

Fujiwara's submission was made to the International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture in 2024. Echizen has produced washi for over fifteen hundred years and remains the customary paper source for many contemporary mokuhanga printmakers, which gives the conference site particular resonance with the medium's material lineage. IMC exchange portfolios collect a single edition print from each participating artist, distributed in matched sets so contributors receive a representative portfolio of the international mokuhanga community in return. Within that format, submissions tend to be concise statements—typically oban-scale or smaller, finished to portfolio standards—rather than ambitious one-off works. Fujiwara's contribution sits within his broader practice of documenting observed scenes from his travels in Japan and Australia, translated through the discipline of carved cherry blocks, water-based pigments, and hand impression with a baren on washi. His participation places his work alongside other practitioners maintaining the technique through the international network of contemporary mokuhanga makers that the IMC was founded to support.