Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
In this video, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull announces his workshop's new series for 2023.
(A note on the audio issue that is bothering many people: I _did_ carefully produce the audio track, recording it separately, then editing it to remove unwanted noise, etc, and properly getting it compressed and normalized. But at the time of exporting the project, I neglected to mute the original camera audio, and this is what caused the echoed/reverby effect. YouTube doesn't let us edit the audio for uploaded videos, so there isn't anything I can do at this point ... Thank you for your patience with me!)
References:
The Mokuhankan workshop:
mokuhankan.com/index.html
The page of information on the series:
mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/reborn.html
A page on the British Museum site discussing the images:
britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/hokusai-great-picture-book-everything/rediscovery-hokusai-drawings-everything
For people who need a 'carving fix' right _now_, you can always see plenty of such work over on our Twitch channel, both 'live' and 'replay':
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
Information on the festival scenes:
e-asakusa.jp/en/culture-experience/8881
In this video, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull announces his workshop's new series for 2023.
(A note on the audio issue that is bothering many people: I _did_ carefully produce the audio track, recording it separately, then editing it to remove unwanted noise, etc, and properly getting it compressed and normalized. But at the time of exporting the project, I neglected to mute the original camera audio, and this is what caused the echoed/reverby effect. YouTube doesn't let us edit the audio for uploaded videos, so there isn't anything I can do at this point ... Thank you for your patience with me!)
References:
The Mokuhankan workshop:
mokuhankan.com/index.html
The page of information on the series:
mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/reborn.html
A page on the British Museum site discussing the images:
britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/hokusai-great-picture-book-everything/rediscovery-hokusai-drawings-everything
For people who need a 'carving fix' right _now_, you can always see plenty of such work over on our Twitch channel, both 'live' and 'replay':
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
Information on the festival scenes:
e-asakusa.jp/en/culture-experience/8881

![The Great Wave - Part 17
Seven years after beginning his Great Wave project, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull brings the latest update ... episode 17.
This one deals with an issue upper-most in the mind of many of the fans and collectors - what is the condition of the set of woodblocks? After seven years in production, can more good prints really be made from them?
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[ Were already getting requests ... I should have foreseen this ... but no, Im sorry; the reject prints mentioned in the video are not for sale.]
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The closeup print comparison images referred to in the video can be found in this directory of the Mokuhankan website:
https://mokuhankan.com/hokusai/images/2021_comparison/
Information on the Mokuhankan edition of the Great Wave:
https://mokuhankan.com/hokusai/
Our Twitch stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking/
Our Patreon page:
https://www.patreon/mokuhankan/
Our webshop:
https://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/thumbnails.php The Great Wave - Part 17](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rsw90veoyT8/mqdefault.jpg)








