IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was submitted to the International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) 2024 Oceania exhibition, held in Echizen — a town in Fukui Prefecture historically associated with [washi](/glossary/washi) production for over 1,500 years. The siting of the exhibition in Echizen carries technical significance, as much contemporary mokuhanga relies on locally produced [kozo](/glossary/kozo) papers from this region. Without documentation of the specific imagery, the work can be situated within the conventions of contemporary IMC submissions, which typically employ water-based pigments, hand-burnishing with the [baren](/glossary/baren), and multiple-block registration on dampened washi. Contemporary practitioners working in this exhibition context often combine traditional [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation techniques with modernist or abstract subject matter, departing from the figurative [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) tradition. Suzuki's contribution to the Oceania exhibition reflects a curatorial emphasis on diasporic and cross-cultural mokuhanga practice — Japanese-Australian, Japanese-American, and Japanese-European artists who maintain technical continuity with the Edo-period workshop tradition while operating within Anglophone print communities. Her participation marks her as part of the post-2010 generation of mokuhanga artists for whom the IMC has become the primary international convening institution.