Poster for 9th woodblock print exhibition

A second impression or variant of the ninth woodblock exhibition poster. Senpan, as an active sosaku-hanga organizer, contributed exhibition announcements throughout his career, and small editions of these posters sometimes survive in different states or color variations. The print integrates Japanese typography—likely brush-style kanji rendering exhibition title, dates, and venue—with pictorial imagery in a single unified woodblock composition, a form that required the artist to think simultaneously as designer and image-maker. Exhibition posters of this period document the movement's institutional rhythm: the recurring Nihon Hanga Kyokai and Kokugakai shows that gave sosaku-hanga prints public visibility through the 1920s, 30s, and postwar decades. Senpan's involvement with such announcements reflects his commitment to the movement beyond his own artistic production—he was an organizer, mentor, and connective figure within the sosaku-hanga community. Variants like this offer collectors and historians a record of his graphic design sensibility alongside his more familiar still lifes, lamps, and bathing scenes.