Uploaded November 2014 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
This is the video announcing our subscription series for 2015 - the Henry Manga.
The website for the series is:
mokuhankan.com/heroes/manga
Following in the (very large) footsteps of Katsushika Hokusai, Jed is undertaking the creation of his own first woodblock print 'sketchbook'. Through the course of 2015, the pages of the book will be carved and printed one by one in Dave's workshop, culminating in the publication of the completed book at the end of the year.
This is the video announcing our subscription series for 2015 - the Henry Manga.
The website for the series is:
mokuhankan.com/heroes/manga
Following in the (very large) footsteps of Katsushika Hokusai, Jed is undertaking the creation of his own first woodblock print 'sketchbook'. Through the course of 2015, the pages of the book will be carved and printed one by one in Dave's workshop, culminating in the publication of the completed book at the end of the year.









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In this video, Tokyo-based printmaker Dave Bull shows the entire process of making a batch of woodblock prints from blank paper to finished print - in PPOV style (Printers Point Of View) - with each of the impressions happening in an uncut, unedited, uninterrupted flow, of ten sheets per colour. 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.
00:00:00 Daves introduction
00:01:52 Impression #1 : Key block : Black
00:13:15 Impression #2 : Distant lines : Teal
00:17:51 Impression #3 : Bamboo : Light green
00:25:36 Impression #4 : Kimono pattern : Red
00:31:04 Impression #5 : Garden fencing : Brown
00:38:58 Impression #6 : Ground / bamboo : Teal
00:50:45 Impression #7 : Shadow tinting : Purple
00:58:53 Impression #8/9 : Sky gradation : Blue (Each sheet twice)
01:22:09 Impression #10 : Sky gradation : Green
01:29:23 Impression #11 : Worker names / Print title : Embossing
The print used for this demonstration is ‘Takeoff’, which was designed for us by Atelier Sento. It is part of our Dreams of Future Past’ subscription series; information here:
https://mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/...
The block set was carved for us by Taran Casey, and he produced a video on his own YouTube channel showing _that_ process:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIYfuYO1sHY
[ Note: there is no narration included in this video, in an attempt to bring you into the undisturbed world of a printers work. Dave will be watching the comments, so drop your questions there, please. (And maybe scan through the comments first, to see if your question has already been answered) ]
There will undoubtedly be questions about the three bowls. They are, from left to right:
- the pigment for that impression (powder pigment mixed with water)
- paste (a starch paste, mixed in water)
- water (used to help balance when the colour starts to get a bit too deep in the prints)
The Mokuhankan website:
https://mokuhankan.com/index.html
Our Twitch stream (live three times a week):
https://www.twitch.com/japaneseprintm...
The Mokuhankan Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/mokuhankan Any Sufficiently Archaic Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HycBmwVHa6Y/mqdefault.jpg)
