IMC 2024 Echizen submission

Submitted to the juried exhibition at the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, Japan, this print was displayed in the Americas regional showcase alongside works by other practitioners from the United States and Canada. The IMC, convened every three years since 2011, gathers artists, scholars, and craftspeople working in the mokuhanga tradition — the Japanese water-based woodblock printing method that uses washi paper, hand-cut cherry or shina blocks, and a baren for burnishing rather than a mechanical press. Echizen, the host region for the 2024 conference, has been a center of washi papermaking for over 1,500 years and is closely associated with the kozo-fiber sheets prized for mokuhanga editions. Contemporary American mokuhanga artists such as Uglow typically work outside the historical [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) genres of [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga), [meisho-e](/glossary/meisho-e), or [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e), instead applying the water-based technique — including [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations and multi-block color registration — to abstract, landscape, or personally invented imagery. Selection for an IMC juried exhibition signals peer recognition within the international mokuhanga community and a working command of the medium's technical demands.