Woodblock printing in Japan
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title:
Woodblock printing in Japan
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa Woodblock printing in Japan is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Invented in China during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868). It is similar to woodcut in Western printmaking in some regards, but was widely used for text as well as images. The Japanese mokuhanga technique differs in that it uses wat
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Ancient technique for reproducing images or text
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing_in_Japan
date created:
2006-11-30T00:57:41Z
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2024-08-30T16:20:42Z
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