IMC 2024 Echizen submission

The IMC 2024 Echizen submission represents Keiko Kobayashi's contribution to the juried exhibition held alongside the International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen in 2024. As Project Coordinator for the conference, Kobayashi participated as an exhibiting artist while also overseeing the event's logistics, a dual role common among IMA members. Contemporary mokuhanga submissions to IMC exhibitions typically employ water-based pigments applied with the [baren](/glossary/baren) onto [kozo](/glossary/kozo) [washi](/glossary/washi), often incorporating [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations and multiple-block registration aligned through [kento](/glossary/kento) marks. The Echizen edition was hosted in a region historically tied to washi production, and a number of submissions engaged with handmade paper itself as both medium and subject. Kobayashi's print sits within a body of work that bridges service to the mokuhanga community and individual studio practice, reflecting the ethos of the triennial conference structure in which practitioners contribute to the field's infrastructure alongside their personal artistic output. Her exhibition history also includes the 2021 Nara IMC juried show, marking a sustained engagement with the conference cycle.