Woodcut

Two hands rendered in solid red-brown ink against cream paper, with white incised lines defining knuckles, nails, and tendons: an upper hand grips a lower hand, whose fingers hold a slender tool or pen. The composition is tightly cropped, filling most of the sheet, with no background setting depicted. Pencil annotations below the image give the edition number "12/30" alongside the artist's red seal and signature "Matsubara"; this 1974 woodcut by Naoko Matsubara is titled *Woodcut*.