Uploaded December 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Dave updates the fans and waiting collectors on the status of the upcoming new subscription series for 2016 - the Ukiyoe Heroes Portraits Set #2.
We also get some views of the young printers at work, have a 'mini-lesson' on the 'shomen-zuri' (front rubbing) technique, and visit the construction zone on the 3rd floor of the Mokuhankan building.
The information page for the Portraits prints is here:
mokuhankan.com/heroes/subscription_sets.html
Dave updates the fans and waiting collectors on the status of the upcoming new subscription series for 2016 - the Ukiyoe Heroes Portraits Set #2.
We also get some views of the young printers at work, have a 'mini-lesson' on the 'shomen-zuri' (front rubbing) technique, and visit the construction zone on the 3rd floor of the Mokuhankan building.
The information page for the Portraits prints is here:
mokuhankan.com/heroes/subscription_sets.html





![The Great Wave - Part 17
Seven years after beginning his Great Wave project, Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker Dave Bull brings the latest update ... episode 17.
This one deals with an issue upper-most in the mind of many of the fans and collectors - what is the condition of the set of woodblocks? After seven years in production, can more good prints really be made from them?
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[ Were already getting requests ... I should have foreseen this ... but no, Im sorry; the reject prints mentioned in the video are not for sale.]
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The closeup print comparison images referred to in the video can be found in this directory of the Mokuhankan website:
https://mokuhankan.com/hokusai/images/2021_comparison/
Information on the Mokuhankan edition of the Great Wave:
https://mokuhankan.com/hokusai/
Our Twitch stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking/
Our Patreon page:
https://www.patreon/mokuhankan/
Our webshop:
https://mokuhankan.com/catalogue/thumbnails.php The Great Wave - Part 17](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rsw90veoyT8/mqdefault.jpg)




