Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
This is a bit of an 'off the wall' video for Dave - there is none of his usual printmaking content at all. It's a one-hour presentation in which he puts forward some thoughts on a couple of ... 'big questions'.
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Dave's woodblock print publishing venture - Mokuhankan - in Asakusa Tokyo:
mokuhankan.com
Dave does a Twitch stream a few days a week, with the camera pointed at his workbench:
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
Dave's old and ramshackle personal website, dating back to 1997 ...
woodblock.com/front.html
0:00 Introduction: Cultural Differences
9:48 Part One: Life in the Universe
28:21 Part Two: Life… For You and Me
This is a bit of an 'off the wall' video for Dave - there is none of his usual printmaking content at all. It's a one-hour presentation in which he puts forward some thoughts on a couple of ... 'big questions'.
***
Dave's woodblock print publishing venture - Mokuhankan - in Asakusa Tokyo:
mokuhankan.com
Dave does a Twitch stream a few days a week, with the camera pointed at his workbench:
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
Dave's old and ramshackle personal website, dating back to 1997 ...
woodblock.com/front.html
0:00 Introduction: Cultural Differences
9:48 Part One: Life in the Universe
28:21 Part Two: Life… For You and Me






![Woodblock Printing Process ... in 3-D spatial audio
In this video, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull shows the entire process of making a batch of prints (8 sheets) from blank paper to finished print - in POV style (from the printers Point Of View) - with each of the colour impressions happening in an uncut, unedited, uninterrupted flow. The viewers can get a very good feeling for the rhythm of the process, and can see just how the pigment/paste balance is controlled along the way.
As a kind of bonus, the entire video was recorded using binaural microphones embedded in Daves ears - you hear _exactly_ what he heard, at every step of the way. (Use headphones!) The recording of each segment was done starting around 3:00 am, when Asakusa is as quiet as possible, but even then, there are residual sounds interrupting along the way (the occasional truck passing by, some rainfall for a few of the impressions, and unavoidably a large air conditioner on a building a few blocks away …)
The print used for this demonstration is ‘The Demon King’, which was designed for us by Jed Henry, creator of the famous Ukiyo-e Heroes prints. It is available as part of our Portraits Set #1’ subscription series; information here: https://mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/portraits.html
[Note: there is no narration included in this video, in an attempt to bring you into the undisturbed world of a printers work. If there is enough interest, we could perhaps upload a second cut of this video, with Dave explaining things along the way ...]
The Mokuhankan website:
https://mokuhankan.com/index.html
Jed Henry’s Ukiyo-e Heroes:
https://ukiyoeheroes.com
Our Twitch stream (live three times a week):
https://www.twitch.com/japaneseprintmaking
The Mokuhankan Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/mokuhankan Woodblock Printing Process ... in 3-D spatial audio](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tGnd5w_a2q8/mqdefault.jpg)



