Untitled

This untitled work sits within the range of landscape subjects that define Shoichi Kitamura's mokuhanga practice. Across his output, the artist has addressed mountain valleys, river courses, forested slopes, traditional villages, and cultivated countryside — the recurring components of the rural Japanese landscape. Without a recorded title, the present print likely depicts one of these subjects, handled through the restrained palette and layered tonal structure characteristic of his work. Kitamura prints by hand on washi using a baren, with each color carried by a separately carved cherry block, and bokashi gradation managing atmospheric transitions across sky and distance. The untitled designation is consistent with prints in his catalogue that operate as observational studies rather than identified meisho-e of named locations. His sustained engagement with the medium connects him to the contemporary continuation of Japanese landscape printmaking, in which mokuhanga is maintained as a living craft tradition by working practitioners rather than a recovered historical technique.