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IMC 2024 Echizen submission by Yuet Yean Teo — Japanese Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)

IMC 2024 Echizen submission

by Yuet Yean Teo

Medium:
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
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IMC 2024 Echizen

Description

The work was submitted to the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, Japan in 2024. As the recorded title identifies only the exhibition context rather than describing imagery, the print's specific subject is not determinable from available documentation. The piece would have been produced using water-based pigments applied with a baren on washi paper — the technical parameters that distinguish mokuhanga from oil-based Western relief printing and from the kento registration system used in nishiki-e production. Echizen, the conference host city, is itself a center of washi production with a paper-making tradition extending over a millennium, and the regional setting foregrounds the material foundation of the medium. Selection for the Europe-Africa regional exhibition placed Teo's work alongside other practitioners working outside Japan, reflecting the IMC's structure of regional juries that documents the geographic dispersion of contemporary mokuhanga. The submission situates Teo within the formal exhibition framework of present-day water-based woodblock practice rather than the historical ukiyo-e lineage.

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