No 3

Keiichi Takasawa worked within the sosaku-hanga movement, in which the artist independently designed, carved, and printed each work, operating outside the traditional collaborative system of publisher, carver, and printer. "No 3" indicates a numbered print within a series or portfolio—a format common among sosaku-hanga artists who grouped related visual investigations under sequential titles. Such numbered series often represent systematic explorations of a formal or thematic premise: spatial division, color interaction, or figure-ground relationships pursued across multiple sheets. Takasawa's prints employ a modernist formal vocabulary with geometric or semi-abstract composition and controlled color fields. The washi ground and woodblock medium retain visible wood grain texture and the subtle tonal variation characteristic of hand-printed works, even when the imagery is formally reductive. Each print in a numbered sequence typically maintains enough formal continuity with its companions to read as part of a coherent investigation while offering distinct compositional resolution.