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Cataloged here under a placeholder title, this print sits within Joichi Hoshi's tree-focused body of work produced from the 1960s onward in the sosaku-hanga tradition, in which the artist alone was responsible for design, block-cutting, and hand-pulled printing. Hoshi's prints of this period are recognizable for their restrained palette — typically a warm or cool ground, an ink-dark tree, and occasional touches of metallic pigment — combined with deep karazuri embossing that lifts trunk, bark, and ground textures into low relief on the washi sheet. Editions were modest, with each impression pulled by baren and showing slight variations in pressure and color saturation. Without a specific title, the work is best understood as one of the many tree studies Hoshi produced in series, exploring the same subject across seasons, atmospheric conditions, and times of day. Its technical approach is consistent with his catalogue: graphic clarity at a distance, sculptural texture on close inspection.