#woodblock printing
One Hundred Views of the Moon by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 1/ Moon over Mount Inaba 2/Moon at the gate of Suzaku 3/ Cooling down at the river near Shijo 4/Patrol in the moonlight 5/Moon over the sea near Daimotsu. Color woodblock prints, Japan, 1885 © Nihon no hanga Amsterdam. Exhibition Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, til January 9, 2022. Cologne, Germany,
Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was the last great woodblock artist in the tradition of Japanese ukiyo-e, and the One Hundred Aspects of the Moon is considered his greatest creation. The series brings to life the history and mythology of ancient Japan. In all prints the moon plays a prominent role, sometimes it is clearly visible, sometimes it is referred to only in the beautiful poems of the text cartouches.
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Takeuchi Seihō, Seihō’s Guide to Drawing (Seihō shūgachō 栖鳳 習畫帖), 1901. Seihō was considered the “most celebrated practitioner” of the Maruyama-Shijō school of art during his time. More to see: myjapanesehanga
woodblock print on top of paper cutouts
Lone wanderer treading silently through the snow.
The main fruit of last year’s (okay, the year changed, so it was technically two years ago, the end of 2016) printmaking course!
It’s a multicolour single plate woodblock print, meaning the whole picture is made with a single plate altered a little bit for each colour layer. So, first I carved out the snow flakes and some of the closest snow mounds, and then gradually carved out more and more and printed with darker and darker colours until the piece was finished. If I recall correctly there’s seven layers in total.
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