Arino Susabini

This 2023 woodblock print presents an interior subject rendered through Miyamoto's characteristic technique of layered transparency. The title 'Arino Susabini' suggests a domestic still-life context — likely a food item or prepared dish set within an interior space. Miyamoto's mokuhanga process employs multiple wood blocks and graduated bokashi to build up tonal passages that give his subjects a luminous, semi-translucent quality at odds with their physical solidity. The Interiors classification positions this work within a quieter register of his practice, where the architectural or domestic surround establishes scale and context for the central object. Printed on washi, the pigment absorption creates subtle surface texture that reinforces the tension between depicted weight and apparent ethereality that defines Miyamoto's approach to representational printmaking.