Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 26 minutes ago
This is the second in our ever-growing series of videos demonstrating various traditional techniques and tools in the Japanese mokuhanga woodblock printmaking style and how we use them today here at Mokuhankan.
Today, Natsuki Suga gives us a tour of her printing bench and surrounding workspace. Watch to learn a bit more about each tool she uses in her daily work as a printmaker. We hope you will enjoy this overview and learn something along the way, as well.
We have a list of ideas and have started the process of making more of these - but please feel free to leave a comment about what techniques and tools you are interested in learning about so we can consider your ideas for future videos.
Printmaker and Host: Natsuki Suga
Video and Photos: Cameron Hilker
Hasegawa Typeface: Markku Mujunen (mokuhankan.com/fonts and markkumujunen.com/)
To see Suga-san actually _using_ this space, watch this video:
youtube.com/watch?v=M8ma5q9-lA0
The Mokuhankan Twitch channel (where you can watch Dave use many of the tools shown here):
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
The Mokuhankan website:
mokuhankan.com
Our Patreon campaign:
patreon.com/mokuhankan
This is the second in our ever-growing series of videos demonstrating various traditional techniques and tools in the Japanese mokuhanga woodblock printmaking style and how we use them today here at Mokuhankan.
Today, Natsuki Suga gives us a tour of her printing bench and surrounding workspace. Watch to learn a bit more about each tool she uses in her daily work as a printmaker. We hope you will enjoy this overview and learn something along the way, as well.
We have a list of ideas and have started the process of making more of these - but please feel free to leave a comment about what techniques and tools you are interested in learning about so we can consider your ideas for future videos.
Printmaker and Host: Natsuki Suga
Video and Photos: Cameron Hilker
Hasegawa Typeface: Markku Mujunen (mokuhankan.com/fonts and markkumujunen.com/)
To see Suga-san actually _using_ this space, watch this video:
youtube.com/watch?v=M8ma5q9-lA0
The Mokuhankan Twitch channel (where you can watch Dave use many of the tools shown here):
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
The Mokuhankan website:
mokuhankan.com
Our Patreon campaign:
patreon.com/mokuhankan



![Embrace the Delight (with narration)
A real time printing video from the Mokuhankan workshop in Asakusa, Tokyo. We see both workshop owner Dave Bull, and staff printer Natsuki Suga, while they each create an edition of the first two prints in the 2022 subscription series - Embrace the Delight.
[The video is being uploaded in two versions: this one with Daves narration explaining many aspects of what you are seeing during the work, and another (visually identical) version that has just the natural background workshop sounds.]
No narration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZFq5-XNoM
With narration (this video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkmWsaVeWnM
Links:
https://mokuhankan.com
https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
https://www.instagram.com/mokuhankan/
https://www.patreon.com/mokuhankan
The print series featured in the video:
https://mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/delight.html
Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
5:57 Daves printing session
34:50 Suga-sans printing session
50:07 The finished print
51:02 Interview with Suga-san Embrace the Delight (with narration)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gkmWsaVeWnM/mqdefault.jpg)

![Its Not Garbage (Remake)
This short video introduces the Gift Prints produced by Tokyo woodblock printmaker Dave Bull, and his Mokuhankan workshop.
Its actually a remake of a similar video produced a number of years ago, updated for the current generation of fans ... [Update: the price mentioned in this years-old video is no longer applicable ... sorry!]
The Gift Prints are available from this page:
https://mokuhankan.com/gift/index.php
Many similar prints can also be obtained through Daves Mokuhankan publishing venture - look in the catalogue there for the items described as HangaClub:
http://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/thumbnails.php?search_key=HangaClub
And, for reference, the company making the software that Doesnt Suck is BareBones; their website is here:
http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ Its Not Garbage (Remake)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hIL3Xpaoe1o/mqdefault.jpg)




