Mokuhan: The Woodcuts of Munakata & Matsubara

This is a catalogue for an exhibition of prints made by Mohukan artists Shiko Munakata and Naoko Matsubara, held at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 1976.

'Like an expanding void, however far one advances, however much one counts, there is still no limit to the world, a great world where

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discussion is futile - such is 'hanga' (the world of woodcut)... The mystery of the woodcut print is found in its universal nature, reaching far beyond the "I" and the "Other". It is not built of ideas or concepts, knows no differentiation, and is above good and evil, coming as id does from Truth alone.'

(Abstract from artist statement by Shiko Munakata)

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