Untitled

This untitled woodblock print is among the works Kenal produced during the MI-LAB Basic Training Program A in Echizen, a curriculum that introduces participants to the full sequence of mokuhanga production from hanshita-e drawing through final impression. Prints designated Untitled within the residency frequently function as plates in a progressive study — testing how a single carved block performs under varied moisture content, pigment dilution, and baren technique. The work likely engages with the registration system known as kento, the L-shaped and straight notches cut into each block to align successive impressions. Compared with commercial Edo-period nishiki-e, contemporary residency prints of this kind tend toward spare, abstracted imagery that foregrounds the medium itself rather than narrative or pictorial subject. As part of Kenal's broader engagement with Japanese printmaking, the piece records a stage of acquired fluency with materials specific to the Echizen workshop environment.