Designer: Ayumi Shiba | Date: 2023

Paper size: 29cm by 23cm | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [M] ? | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: $ 180.00£ 135.00€ 155.00

Description: Ayumi Shiba is one of the young ladies who trained at Mokuhankan back in its early days, in multiple capacities: she worked in the shop helping explain the prints to visitors; she hosted Print Parties; and she worked as a staff printer, creating work to be sold to customers and subscribers.

But these days she focuses her efforts on her own printmaking, and this print is one of her creations - from concept, through design, and all the carving and printing ... herself.

Shiba-san's comments on this print: In the frozen reaches of 8th-century Tōhoku, the rising Yamato Empire sees only resources to be seized and "savages" to be tamed. But for the Emishi, the land is not a prize—it is their soul. As the great chieftain Aterui falls to imperial deception, the flickering hope of a nation rests on the shoulders of a boy: Hitokabemaru.