The Sunshine Filtering Through Foliage #3

The third print in Yamamoto's komorebi series, continuing the artist's investigation of dappled light through tree canopies in monochrome stone lithography. Within a numbered series of this kind, each successive print typically reworks the motif from a slightly different vantage — a denser canopy, a wider clearing, a steeper angle of light — rather than reproducing the prior composition. The lithographic process allows Yamamoto to build atmosphere through layered tusche washes, with reserved areas of paper standing in for the brightest passages of sunlight. Unlike traditional Japanese woodblock prints, where komorebi might be suggested through carved highlights or printed gradation, stone lithography permits a continuous tonal field closer to charcoal drawing or photography. This places Yamamoto in dialogue less with ukiyo-e than with twentieth-century sosaku-hanga and contemporary print traditions that absorb Western graphic methods. The series functions as a sustained meditation on a single optical phenomenon.