Work No. 3

A separately catalogued plate also titled Work No. 3, this print exists alongside the artist's other prints of the same designation as a distinct state, edition, or compositional variant. Hamanishi's recurrent use of bare numerical titles across his output makes such doublings unsurprising and signals his disinclination to weight individual prints with descriptive language. Listed as an etching, the work is produced through the mezzotint method that defines Hamanishi's practice, with the rocked copper plate carrying its burr toward saturated black before burnished areas recover graduated tone. The presence of two prints sharing the Work No. 3 title within the catalogue suggests either a pair conceived together or a later return to a prior compositional idea, both common in studios that work over decades on a defined formal vocabulary. The print belongs to the contemporary Japanese intaglio tradition that Hamanishi has helped sustain through his teaching and exhibition record.