Sōsaku-hanga

創作版画 / 1904–1960s / Style / Japanese Woodblock Prints

A movement that rejected the division of labor among designer, carver and printer and declared that one person draws, carves and prints. It chose to leave the trace of the maker's hand rather than technical perfection, taking the opposite road from the shin-hanga of the same years.

Coarse lines that keep the marks of the knife / Self drawn, self carved, self printed / Tolerance for distortion and uneven inking / Subjects personal to the artist

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Dictionary entry

Best used for
Making prints that keep the trace of the hand as a value · Showing making in the first person rather than by division of labor
Type
Cut hand carved letters into the block as part of the image.
Composition
Use the rectangle of the block itself as the frame.
Material
Keep the grain of the wood and the cut marks, and do not erase uneven printing.
Caution
Roughness itself is not the goal. The substance is the choice of what you take on with your own hands.
Further study
Yamamoto Kanae, Fisherman, 1904 / The founding of the Japan Creative Print Association / Its ideological opposition to shin-hanga

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