MIMI chan 2

MIMI chan 2 (2025) is a medium-format vertical etching with hand-colouring, measuring 50 × 42 cm, shown at the 68th CWAJ Print Show 2025. The numeral in the title indicates a continuation of an earlier 'MIMI chan' plate, suggesting a sustained subject — most plausibly a recurring figure or character named Mimi, the diminutive honorific 'chan' marking the subject as a child or as the focus of personal affection. Notsu's process pairs the line-led discipline of intaglio — drypoint or acid-bitten contour drawn on a metal plate, inked and pulled through a roller press onto dampened paper — with a second pass of hand-applied colour, which softens the graphic edge of the etched line and introduces tonal variation impossible to achieve through plate-tone alone. The print sits within Notsu's wider self-directed practice (独学), part of a small cohort of contemporary Japanese printmakers working outside university training and exhibiting through CWAJ's annual Tokyo show.