David Bull | David's Choice - Episode #12: The Mokuhankan Collection @seseragistudio | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
This is the next in our 'David's Choice' series, where Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull introduces some of his favourite prints. In this episode, Dave introduces the Mokuhankan Collection, the 'museum' of beautiful old Japanese prints that he has gathered over the years.

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The Mokuhankan Collection:
mokuhankan.com/collection

The Mokuhankan website:
mokuhankan.com

Our Patreon page:
patreon.com/mokuhankan

Our Twitch stream:
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking

Instagram:
instagram.com/mokuhankan

Thank you for watching!

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Links relevant to this video:

The 'future Mokuhankan' story that Dave talked about in the video can be downloaded in .pdf form.
1) in single page layout, for easy reading on a tablet, etc.
mokuhankan.com/downloads/Mokuhankan_20xx.pdf
2) in two-page spreads, for printing out as he did for the video:
mokuhankan.com/downloads/Mokuhankan_20xx_spreads.pdf


All the prints in the Collection have 'direct links', so that the images can easily be shared when you want to show somebody an interesting item you have found. Here are links to the prints introduced in the video (in order of appearance):

The woman and horse:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00017-051

Akashi-ban prints:
Pheasants:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00036-003
Fugu:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00036-004
Insect & fruit:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00036-002
Urashisma Taro:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00036-011
Mt. Fuji among clouds:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00036-009
Crow on shrine Gate:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00036-001

Kuchi-e prints:
Girl and Cricket:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00038-035
Beauty with poem card:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00038-029
Woman in Moonlight:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00038-027
Scent of Chrysanthemums:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00038-009

Books:
Matsuyama Mirror:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00090-010
Momotaro (French):
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00090-001
Favourite Flowers:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00086

Colour printing process:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00085
(the finished print):
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00006-017

Taisho-era subscription prints:
Kaigetsudo beauty:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00024-001
Pleasure Quarter:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00024-006
Ebisu/Daikoku parody dancers: mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00024-007
Heron Maiden:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00024-032
Mt. Fuji through a window:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00024-014

Tokaido senshafuda set:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00112
The wild boar:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00159-005
47 Ronin (matchlabels):
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00095
Nature scenes (matchlabels):
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00219
Summer beauties (matchlabels):
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00104
Yokai (matchlabels):
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00216

Koi pond:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00081-006
Kabuki 18:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00032-010
The Giant Stride:
mokuhankan.com/collection/index.php?id_for_display=00020-002

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0:00 Introduction
7:22 Surimono in the Collection
9:55 Kuchi-e in the Collection
11:39 What do we have?
15:39 Books in the Collection
21:06 The photos are important!
25:07 More ukiyo-e in the Collection
28:37 How to look at the Collection
41:53 Wrap-up and an Announcement