Untitled

Catalogued without a title, this print belongs to Shoichi Kitamura's ongoing study of light and atmosphere in the Japanese countryside. The image likely depicts a rural scene — a mist-softened mountain ridge, a river surface catching diffuse light, or a village seen across a distance — composed with the tonal sensitivity that runs through his mokuhanga output. Bokashi gradation, central to his handling of atmospheric effects, allows soft transitions between value zones that carry the suggestion of light, time of day, and seasonal weather without explicit notation. The print is pulled by hand on washi using a baren, with each color delivered by a separately carved cherry block. Within his broader catalogue, the untitled prints often function as quieter studies of atmospheric feeling rather than depictions of identified named places. His practice belongs to the contemporary continuation of Japanese landscape printmaking, sustained by working artists who maintain mokuhanga as an active craft applied to direct observation.