Sunday Print calendar

This print belongs to the calendar exchange tradition central to the sosaku-hanga movement, in which artists produced small editioned prints distributed among collectors, fellow printmakers, and supporting organisations. Maekawa Senpan was an active participant in such groups, including the Nihon Hanga Kyokai, and contributed regularly to calendar and ex-libris projects. Sunday Print likely refers to a specific circle or publication within this milieu, possibly the Nichiyo Hanga association of amateur and professional printmakers. Calendar prints of this kind are typically intimate in scale, combining a date register with an image keyed to a season, festival, or domestic subject. Senpan's contributions favour everyday motifs such as a bather, a fruit, a child, or a small animal, carved with the economical line and warm humour that characterise his work. The format reflects sosaku-hanga values of self-carved, self-printed work circulated through artist networks rather than commercial publishers.