![]() ![]() The printing sessions are all done by hand with a bamboo baren. Also, this technique does not need a printing press. The working space does not have to be big. Mokuhanga is a flexible and non-toxic method to make prints. After that, the second collaboration woodblock project 'Spring is Here' was finished in 2007. ![]() It was in the same period that I got the opportunity to make a collaboration project together with artist and printmaker Masahiro Takade called ' The Nagasawa Bird'. Paper-making was taught by Yoshiharu Okuda from Awaji-island. The teachers were highly skilled, like the master printer Tadashi Toda, the carver Shunzo Matsuda, both from Kyoto, and Kyoko Sakamoto, from Nagoya University of Art. I not only changed from working in the technique of silkscreen printing, but also gradually changed my expression in art. The opportunity to learn this old printing technique has had a big impact on me. The studio was situated high in the hills of Awaji-island south of Kobe. Together with 5 other international artists, I worked and studied in the studio of Nagasawa Heights, for two months. My enduring love of mokuhanga began in the year of 2000 when I got the unique chance to take part in the Nagasawa Art-Park, Artist in Residence program, founded by Keiko Kadota. Further examples, from the same period, include the prints of actors and beautiful women, known as wood block prints of the 'Floating World' or the Ukiyo-e. Hokusai's works include 'The Great Wave At Kanagawa' (from a series of thirty-six views of Mount Fuji) and Hiroshige masterfully captured beautiful landscapes. Here in Europe, prints from the Edo period are widely known from the artists Hokusai and Hiroshige. Moku means wood and hanga can be translated as printing. Mokuhanga is the Japanese word for printing, using the water-based woodblock technique developed during the Edo period. Printmaking Tadashi Toda (printer) and me ![]()
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