Head of a Man

Produced using fabric and silkscreen rather than traditional woodblock techniques, this portrait of a man reveals the experimental side of Shinagawa's practice. The mixed-media approach places the work outside the conventional boundaries of hanga printmaking, incorporating textile materials that introduce texture, weave patterns, and a physicality absent from paper-based prints. The portrait subject, rendered as a head study, connects to Shinagawa's recurring interest in the human face as a site of psychological expression. The silkscreen process allows for flat, bold color application and precise graphic forms, creating a more mechanically uniform surface than hand-printed woodblock. The use of fabric as substrate or collage element adds an industrial, Pop Art-adjacent quality that situates the work within the international avant-garde experiments of mid-twentieth-century printmaking.