IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was Hera's accepted entry to the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at IMC 2024, held in Echizen — a Fukui Prefecture region historically central to [washi](/glossary/washi) papermaking. Specific imagery is not documented in the publicly available exhibition catalog. Works selected for the juried IMC exhibitions characteristically demonstrate fluency in water-based woodblock methods: kentō registration, [baren](/glossary/baren)-burnished impressions, and layered transparent pigments that produce [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradients. Submissions are typically pulled on Echizen kozo or similar handmade washi to align with the host region's papermaking tradition. As an Americas-region selection, Hera's print situates her within the contemporary diasporic mokuhanga community — practitioners working outside Japan who have come to the technique through workshops, residencies, and the IMC network itself. The juried exhibition functions as a peer-recognition platform within the international water-based woodblock community, and inclusion indicates the work's adherence to the technical and material conventions of the tradition rather than to any single subject category such as [bijin-ga](/glossary/bijin-ga) or [kacho-e](/glossary/kacho-e).