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A woodblock print by Kawachi Seiko held in a museum collection, identified by its institutional catalog number. Kawachi is a contemporary printmaker whose work engages with abstract and semi-abstract imagery, pushing the woodblock medium into territory far removed from its traditional associations with landscapes and beauties. Museum holdings of contemporary hanga artists like Kawachi document the ongoing evolution of a medium that many assumed had reached its endpoint with the death of the last shin hanga masters. Each accessioned print argues otherwise, demonstrating that woodblock remains a living, developing art form.