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Shin-hanga

Shin-hanga renewed Japanese woodblock printing through collaboration between designers, carvers, printers and publishers, combining inherited techniques with modern imagery and international markets.

People crossing a bridge in slanting rain in a woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige

Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e was an Edo-period visual culture of prints and paintings depicting actors, beauties, landscapes, stories, and urban life.

Artisans carving and printing Japanese woodblock prints in an 1879 triptych

Japanese Woodblock Printing

Japanese woodblock printing joins design, carving, registration, pigment, paper, and skilled hand pressure in a long print tradition.