Untitled (sugiura-kazutoshi)

A fourth untitled work by Sugiura Kazutoshi preserved without descriptive title information, this woodblock print belongs to the output of an artist who spent more than five decades pursuing a singular vision: the contemporary Japanese botanical print, rendered through a technique of layered woodblock, silkscreen, and gold-leaf application developed from classical nihonga study. Sugiura's numbered series — particularly the monumental iris sequence of more than one hundred and sixty compositions — demonstrate the depth of his commitment to this subject and approach. Works catalogued without titles typically await fuller provenance research to determine their series placement.