A wooden printing block with a geometric design is laid on a table alongside various paint containers, brushes, and a printing tool.

This print depicts a carved woodblock with a geometric design alongside the tools of mokuhanga practice — paint containers, brushes, and a printing tool likely standing in for the [baren](/glossary/baren). The composition functions as a document of the artist's working method, with the wooden block (probably shina plywood or cherry) shown in the moments around the printing process. Contemporary mokuhanga has embraced geometric and abstract form, moving away from the figurative [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) tradition toward compositions that range from hard-edged color fields to subtle [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations. Ninomiya Miyuki's selection for the 2021 IMC in Nara and the 2024 IMC in Echizen places her within this contemporary movement. The geometric tag indicates the design is non-representational or constructed from regular forms — a direction many mokuhanga artists pursue to exploit the medium's capacity for flat color, registration through kentō marks, and the layered overlap of multiple block impressions.