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 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-burnished impressions, and layered transparent pigments that produce 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 or kacho-e.