Collection of the complete woodblock prints

A frontispiece or portfolio image for a comprehensive gathering of Inagaki's woodblock output, this print serves the function of defining the canon of the artist's production. Complete-prints collections were a recognized format within sosaku-hanga publishing, allowing artists to determine the boundaries of their own oeuvre and present it as an integrated body rather than a sequence of disconnected sheets. The image would have employed Inagaki's recognizable graphic shorthand: bold silhouette, concentrated color, and the firm keyblock outline that carried his work from individual prints into coherent visual identity. Hand-pulled on washi using a baren, the impression would have been produced in the limited editions characteristic of the Creative Print movement. Such collection prints functioned as both artwork and paratext — the visual entry point to the artist's larger output, comparable to the introductory plates that opened earlier album-bound ukiyo-e series. The format reflects how seriously sosaku-hanga artists treated their published canon, distinguishing their artisanal practice from the publisher-driven model of Edo-period printmaking.