Japanese woodcut prints

This page features the 'Scenes from Nature' series of woodblock prints created by David Bull and the Mokuhankan workshop in Asakusa, Tokyo.

Woods, Shirō Kasamatsu (Japan, 1898-1991), Japan, 1955, Prints, Color woodblock print.

from Kyôbashi; Yoshida & Honda Woodblock Prints 1834

Frank Brangwyn was an English former apprentice of William Morris, while Yoshijiro Urushibara was an expert Japanese woodblock artist. In the early part of the 20th century, they made prints together that blended their artistic styles and showed their shared adoration of nature

from Kyôbashi; Yoshida & Honda Woodblock Prints 1834

Illustrator: Shizuo Fujimoro, "Night Train" 1914

Creating a test print using moukahanga technique (Japanese woodcut) brushing on watercolour and nori paste to latyer the colours in this Crysanthymum.

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Even among the artists of the sosaku hanga art movement, Ono Tadashige's art works are beyond any of the common artistic patterns. His print subjects, showing often ugly industrial scenes are gloomy, dismal, cheerless, kind of morbid, even depressing. Nevertheless the woodblock prints by the artist are in good demand and not cheap.