Untitled (takashi-henmi)

An untitled Henmi woodblock, representative of his sustained practice as a self-printing artist working in the sosaku-hanga tradition. The movement's core principles — that the artist should conceive, carve, and print their own designs — distinguished its practitioners from the commercial woodblock world where artists, carvers, and printers were separate specialized roles. Henmi's adherence to these principles gave his prints their characteristic quality of personal directness.