Plate of cedar (Hanganet sample)

"Plate of cedar (Hanganet sample)" stands apart from Yoshioka's rubber-substrate works in invoking the traditional Japanese hanga vocabulary directly. Cedar — softer and more open-grained than the cherry typically prized for [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) key blocks — has historically served as a secondary block material for color and large-area printing in Japanese woodblock practice. The "Hanganet sample" subtitle situates the piece within a documentation or pedagogical framework, suggesting it was produced as a reference example rather than a finished edition. As mixed media that brings silkscreen into contact with a wood matrix, the work reads as a hybrid: a contemporary printmaker's engagement with the timber and tooling traditions of hanga, set alongside the screen processes that define his studio practice. This dialogue between traditional and contemporary print methods is consistent with Yoshioka's role at KCUA, where the transmission of woodblock techniques runs alongside the experimental silkscreen and digital-print research his work has helped advance.