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We left behind and this is the world. I wish to continue this world. by Chika Osaka — Japanese Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

We left behind and this is the world. I wish to continue this world.

by Chika Osaka

Medium:
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Image courtesy of
Hanga Ten

Description

The longer, syntactically tangled title operates as a fragment of inscription — the kind Osaka regularly embeds within or alongside her images — and here suggests an elegiac framing of what survives as world after departure. The composition likely incorporates a figure within an interior or threshold space surrounded by patterned objects, dresses, or still-life fragments that stand in for what has been left behind. Mokuhanga construction proceeds through carved cherry or shina blocks for each color, water-based pigments pressed onto washi with a baren, and kento registration to align the discrete color passages. The medium's flat color fields and sharp incised contour move Osaka's typical lithographic density toward something more meditative, with the white of unprinted washi available as substantive surface rather than negative ground. The print belongs to the hangaten editions, which expand her practice from lithography into relief processes while preserving the recurring motif of an inhabited but solitary interior. Its declarative title contrasts with the tentative, overheard register that characterizes most of her mokuhanga output.

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