IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was Klara Vith's submission to the juried exhibition at the International Mokuhanga Conference Europe held in Echizen in 2024, the first IMC convened on European soil. The generic registration title reflects the exhibition catalogue's documentation rather than the artwork's pictorial content. Contemporary mokuhanga submitted to IMC exhibitions typically demonstrates fluency with the core toolkit of the medium — water-based pigments brushed onto cherry or shina blocks, kentō registration for multi-block alignment, and [baren](/glossary/baren) burnishing onto sized [washi](/glossary/washi) — while ranging widely in subject from abstraction to landscape and figurative work. Echizen, the host district, is itself one of Japan's principal washi-producing regions, and submissions are often printed on locally available [kozo](/glossary/kozo) or [gampi](/glossary/gampi) sheets supplied for the conference. Vith works within Austria's small mokuhanga community, where the technique has been adopted primarily through workshops and IMC's biennial gatherings rather than through any continuous local printmaking tradition. Her inclusion in the juried selection situates her among Central European practitioners extending mokuhanga beyond its Japanese origins into contemporary studio practice.