Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Here is the next in the ongoing series of videos showing how Jed Henry's 'Ukiyo-e Heroes' woodblock prints are made. This one is the design known as 'Two Souls Entwined', and was shot in the printer's room on the 3rd floor of the Mokuhankan building in Asakusa, Tokyo, in February of 2019.
The young printer you see in the video is Natsuki Suga, who has been working here at Mokuhankan for a few years now. Staffer Cameron Hilker spent hours upstairs with her while she worked on this print, and this video is put together from the clips he took during the process. (Cameron also did the editing of the whole thing ...)
The print in this video is now available from Jed's webshop here:
shop.ukiyoeheroes.com/collections/handmade-woodblock-prints/products/two-souls-entwined-woodblock-print
The rest of the famous Ukiyo-e Heroes prints can be seen here:
mokuhankan.com/heroes
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We stream our printmaking activities live from our Tokyo workshop three days a week over on Twitch:
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
... and we have a Patreon page at:
patreon.com/mokuhankan
Thanks for watching!
00:00 Introduction
02:32 1/13 - Key Block
04:06 2/13 - Blue Dragon Key Block
05:17 3/13 - Skin Tone
06:14 4/13 - Green Accents
07:07 5/13 - Armour Grey
08:10 6/13 - Metal Grey
09:09 7/13 - Dark Blue Clothing
10:39 8/13 - Black Clothing
12:46 9/13 - Background Teal
14:37 10/13 - Green for Dragon
15:46 Suga-san talks about her blue pigments
16:00 11/13 - Blue for Dragons
17:19 12/13 - Teal Accent on Waves
18:28 13/13 - Tattoo
19:17 14/13 - Name Embossing
20:06 15/13 - Shomenzuri on Fabric
20:54 Slideshow
21:29 Wrap-up
Here is the next in the ongoing series of videos showing how Jed Henry's 'Ukiyo-e Heroes' woodblock prints are made. This one is the design known as 'Two Souls Entwined', and was shot in the printer's room on the 3rd floor of the Mokuhankan building in Asakusa, Tokyo, in February of 2019.
The young printer you see in the video is Natsuki Suga, who has been working here at Mokuhankan for a few years now. Staffer Cameron Hilker spent hours upstairs with her while she worked on this print, and this video is put together from the clips he took during the process. (Cameron also did the editing of the whole thing ...)
The print in this video is now available from Jed's webshop here:
shop.ukiyoeheroes.com/collections/handmade-woodblock-prints/products/two-souls-entwined-woodblock-print
The rest of the famous Ukiyo-e Heroes prints can be seen here:
mokuhankan.com/heroes
***
We stream our printmaking activities live from our Tokyo workshop three days a week over on Twitch:
twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
... and we have a Patreon page at:
patreon.com/mokuhankan
Thanks for watching!
00:00 Introduction
02:32 1/13 - Key Block
04:06 2/13 - Blue Dragon Key Block
05:17 3/13 - Skin Tone
06:14 4/13 - Green Accents
07:07 5/13 - Armour Grey
08:10 6/13 - Metal Grey
09:09 7/13 - Dark Blue Clothing
10:39 8/13 - Black Clothing
12:46 9/13 - Background Teal
14:37 10/13 - Green for Dragon
15:46 Suga-san talks about her blue pigments
16:00 11/13 - Blue for Dragons
17:19 12/13 - Teal Accent on Waves
18:28 13/13 - Tattoo
19:17 14/13 - Name Embossing
20:06 15/13 - Shomenzuri on Fabric
20:54 Slideshow
21:29 Wrap-up
