![]() This system gave them exact replication of the designer's drawn lines, without interpretation by a carver. In the early days of the shin-hanga the famous Yoshida family pioneered a method of creating metal key blocks for their complex prints, and nearly all of their work over the years was produced this way - with a metal key block created by photo-mechanical methods from the designer's drawing, paired with cherry blocks for the colours. In the tradition of publishers of old Shin-hanga prints, who were not afraid to use new technologies to make beautiful prints, Kashiwagi-san has done something new as well. The carving on this print is an interesting story. He has entitled it 'Reiwa Shin-hanga', taking his cue from the name of the new era that began in 2019 with the accession of a new emperor. ![]() Designer Tsuchimochi-san has taken a bit of a liberty with this though, by 'erasing' the freeway that passes above the bridge (jumping both into the past, when there was no such freeway, and into the future another ten years, by which time - planned, anyway - it will be gone).įollowing in the footsteps of Shin-hanga designers of the early 1900s, the young publisher Takashi Kashiwagi has sought to reinvigorate the mokuhanga world with a new concept. This was the place from which all measurements of distance were (and still are) taken. It depicts the most famous location in old Edo - the bridge at Nihonbashi. Paper size: 25.5cm by 36cm | Enlargement | Currency: $ / £ / €ĭescription: This design is the second in a new movement in woodblock printmaking. ![]() Designer: Shinji Tsuchimochi | Publisher: Miyakodori Publishing | Date: 2020
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