Diary: March 5th, '79 (b)

Marked with a "(b)" suffix indicating a second version or variant, this March 1979 woodblock and silkscreen print shares its date with at least one other Diary entry. The practice of making multiple prints from a single day reveals Noda's willingness to revisit the same moments from different angles or through different compositional choices. Early March in Japan is still firmly winter in temperature, though the light begins to shift. The woodblock-silkscreen combination was by now Noda's established method, one he would continue using for decades. At thirty-nine, he was approaching the midpoint of both his life and his career.