Notebook of gluttony on land and at sea

The title evokes a personal record of eating pleasures drawn from both terrestrial and maritime sources, a subject entirely consistent with Maekawa Senpan's sustained engagement with food, appetite, and the small satisfactions of daily life. The print may depict a banquet spread, a market tableau, or a figure seated before a selection of dishes—shellfish, grilled fish, and vegetables gathered as if cataloguing the range of Japanese culinary pleasure. Senpan returned repeatedly to food as subject matter throughout his career, treating it with the sincerity and affection he brought to figures and landscapes. As a sosaku-hanga practitioner, he carved and printed his own blocks, allowing him to render the textures of seafood—the iridescence of fish skin, the rough surfaces of shells—through direct manipulation of the woodblock. The notebook framing suggests an intimate, cumulative personal document rather than a formal composition, positioning appetite as a form of engaged attention to the pleasures of the material world.