IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was submitted to the IMC Asia exhibition held in Echizen in 2024, a venue with particular significance given Echizen's centuries-long status as one of Japan's primary [washi](/glossary/washi) production centers. As a recipient of the 2021 Washi Arts Award, Morita's contribution to a show staged at the heart of Japanese papermaking represents a continuation of her established engagement with paper as an active component of mokuhanga rather than a passive support. Works submitted to IMC exhibitions typically reflect contemporary mokuhanga practice, in which traditional [baren](/glossary/baren)-printed water-based pigments on washi are deployed toward abstract or experimental compositions rather than the figurative [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e) or [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) subjects of the Edo and Meiji periods. Technical attention in such submissions often falls on the interaction between pigment absorption, fiber direction, and the deckled or shaped edges of handmade sheets. The 2024 Echizen showing situates Morita within an international network of mokuhanga practitioners maintaining sustained dialogue with the material traditions the IMC was founded to perpetuate, building directly on the recognition she received in Nara three years earlier.