IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print represents Lin's submission to the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference, held in Echizen in 2024. The work was selected for the Asia regional exhibition, one of several geographic groupings that organize the juried show. As with most contemporary mokuhanga produced for IMC submissions, the print is made using water-based pigments, hand-burnished with a [baren](/glossary/baren) onto [washi](/glossary/washi), following the technical lineage of Edo-period [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e) while operating within a contemporary fine-art framework rather than the [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) publishing model of artist, carver, printer, and publisher. Echizen, the host city, is itself a centuries-old center of washi production, and the conference traditionally foregrounds the relationship between paper, pigment, and block. Lin's inclusion situates her within the cohort of Taiwanese practitioners actively engaged with the International Mokuhanga Association, a community that has expanded the medium beyond Japan through residencies, conferences, and juried exhibitions held on a triennial cycle since the inaugural 2011 IMC in Kyoto and Awaji.