Untitled

This untitled print belongs to Ninomiya Miyuki's body of work shown at the 2021 and 2024 International Mokuhanga Conferences. Contemporary mokuhanga practitioners typically work with [washi](/glossary/washi) paper — often kozo or [gampi](/glossary/gampi) — and apply water-based pigments to carved cherry or shina plywood blocks using a [baren](/glossary/baren) for hand burnishing. Without a recorded title, the print's specific subject is undocumented in available sources, but its inclusion in juried IMC exhibitions situates it within the international community of artists working in the mokuhanga tradition rather than the commercial [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) workshop model. Ninomiya's selection across two conferences — Nara in 2021 and Echizen in 2024 — indicates a sustained practice. The work would have been presented as a hand-pulled edition print, made by the artist alone, in keeping with the postwar [sosaku-hanga](/glossary/sosaku-hanga) model in which the artist designs, carves, and prints the work.