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Japanese printmaker Kenji Suzuki (1906-1987), who themed his works on antiwar and labor issues, created a woodblock print titled Shomei (Signature).
It shows a woman carrying an infant on her back as she signs her name on a signature form with a determined frown. Done in bold strokes in black and white, it is a powerful work.
I lingered before it when I saw it the other day at the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts in western Tokyo. It conveyed the gravity of the act of signing one s name to a cause that really matters.
Completed in 1960, Suzuki apparently drew inspiration from a movement to protect workers rights.