A movement that became popular during post WWII Japan. Sosaku-hanga: "self-prints"- prints that are designed, carved, and printed by the artist.Shina: Japanese basswood or lindenwood often used as easily-carved woodblocks.Shin-hanga:"new prints"- refers 20th century woodblock printmaking revival often featuring layered color landscapes.Sakura: Japanese cherry often used for woodblocks.Ōban: a print size about 15½ by 10½ inches (39 by 26.5 cm).Nori: Paste to keep pigment in suspension made of rice, potato or tapioca.Nishiki-e: Multi-coloured woodblock printing.Moku hanga:Japanese for woodblock prints.Ita-bokashi: "block shading" a technique for producing gradation achieved by sanding or abrading the edges of the carving.Hanshita: The drawings used as a guide to later carving.Keyblock: Roughly, line blocks often containing color.Chūban: a print size about 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 cm).
Bokashi: A graduated color impression often seen in traditional ukiyo-e print backgrounds.Beta ban: A flat, consistent color block.Baren-suji: Impression marks made with a baren- intentional or not.Baren: The traditional printmaking "pad" that is used by manually pressing the inked block.Hanga bake have long handles, maru (round) bake resemble shoe brushes. Bake(hanga or maru): traditional Japanese printing brushes made of horse or hog hair.Yoshida, Toshi, “ Japanese Print-Making”, Tuttle, 1965- many ‘contemporary’ techniques.Yoshida, Hiroshi, “Japanese Wood-Block Printing” Sanseido, Tokyo 1939 – the original hanga bible- expensive, but online at.Salter, Rebecca, Japanese Woodblock Printing, University of Hawaii Press, 2002.Laitinen, Kari et al., The Art and Craft of Woodblock Printmaking, University of Art and Design Helsinki, 2001- woodblock printmaking with oil-based inks and the Japanese watercolour woodcut.Woodlike Matsumura: woodblock supplies, Japan.Articles, encyclopedia, library – just about all you need to know.A quick basics how-to guide to Japanese-style printmaking that I’ve used for workshops and demonstrations: japaneseprintmaking.pdf.Tanuki Prints’ Pinterest page showing hundreds of Japanese woodblock images relating to process and shin hanga.
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