![]() This collection describes Japanese printmaking different schools and movements. That is why those prints had colors so vivid, as well as glazes, and transparency. ![]() As opposed to western tradition, where artists used oil-based inks for woodcuts, moku-hanga technique uses water-based inks. Its original name is ‘moku-hanga’ and it has a wide usage in artistic genre of ‘ukiyo-e’. This technique originated from China, where it was used to print books for many centuries. Woodblock printing appeared in Japan at the beginning of Edo period, when Tokugawa shogunate was ruled by the Japanese society. ![]() Woodblock printing had been used in China for centuries to print books, long before the advent of movable type, but was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868). Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, moku-hanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period.
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