videos by david bull

Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull narrates a video showing the step-by-step process of making one of the woodblock prints in the 2019 subscription series 'A Japan Journey', designed by Jed Henry. This image is the August print - Summer Tea Fields - and is being made by our young printer Natsuki Suga. Subscription information: https://mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/ The Mokuhankan Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking The Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mokuhankan The Mokuhankan website: https://mokuhankan.com Note: although the series is being produced one by one during the course of 2019, we intend to keep the set of prints in production for many years, so if you are coming to this page at some future date, it should still be available! 00:00 Introduction 02:06 1/10 - Background Orange 03:35 2/10 - Keyblock 04:34 3/10 - Sky Blue and Shadows 05:49 4/10 - Green 07:13 5/10 - Shadows 08:26 6/10 - More Shadows 09:29 7/10 - Darker Green 10:48 8/10 - Tree Shadows 11:35 9/10 - Foreground Shadows 12:32 10/10 - Blue Sky Gradation 13:49 11/10 - Embossing 14:11 Slideshow

This video - the first in what will be an extended series - gives some background on the current washi (Japanese paper) situation at Mokuhankan, a woodblock print publisher in Tokyo, Japan. We learn about how various types of washi were used in Japanese printmaking in the old days, how one particular type - hōsho - became the standard in the 20th century, and we visit the town where most of this paper is currently made. 00:00 Introduction 09:12 Inspecting some old prints 17:40 Into the 20th Century 26:40 The 'Here and Now' 40:22 Over to Echizen 44:23 Dave's conundrum 50:44 Udatsu Craft Museum ... and we meet Murata-san 01:03:52 Back at Mokuhankan Links The balloon bomb story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb Udatsu Craft Museum: https://www.echizenwashi.jp/english/information/udatsu.html Mokuhankan https://mokuhankan.com/index.html Our Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mokuhankan