Japanese wood-cutting and wood-cut printing / by T. Tokuno ; edited by S.R. Koehler.
- Tokuno, T.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Japanese wood-cutting and wood-cut printing / by T. Tokuno ; edited by S.R. Koehler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![i.i Aaitator, for mixing colors iu the basin, No. 17. 15 rL of cotton cloth, to be placed under tbe four corners of the Tihiuks Avhile printing, to keep them from movn.g it The Jive dry colors described above as used in the printing of f yinaka genji, put up in bottles. 17 Basin, for mixing colors, THE PElNTEii a™ printing. The method ot takmg mpress.ons m i„„.tvated on Plate ix. The printer .eats hi.nself »■« - '-Ses all the tools and materials req.iired, in good order, as shown. The lilauk to be ,r ted i.s i.Iaced on the printer's table A, and the reqn.red color . laid on with the brush B. The paper being ready for prmtmg, and having been plaeed npon the shelf C of the box D a sheet of .t .s la d down upon the plank, and is rubbed lightly w,th the '-baren • K The prtated sheet is then plaeed on a board which rests upon the box F, userfor keeping colors, color dishes, etc., and when the required nmu. ber 0 sheets ha! been .rinted, they are put back on the shel C An^ other plank is now taken, the second impression is made upon the sheete bearing the first, and this is followed by the thud, fourth, etc., '-^X^fTl^r:^ttor. inking', the block.] As before state the pigment to be used is put on the block or plank, and some ee paste i tien sprinkled upon it. It is weU, also, to soak the brush Zerly with this paste, so as to mix it thoroughly wi h the pigment TUs taLIases the brilliancy of the colors, and also fixes them more [Embossing.] There is a special kind of p-inting caUed dry impression. This is u.sed when it is desired to represen desSns of the same color as the ground, but differing m brilliancy It is executed after the printing has been iinished, and the paper has be- eonre qu te dry. The sheet is then laid upon a plank speeiaUy cut for the pCose, but not charged with color, and is rubbed with the We'Li.a,.d ilmvM of ming it. The baren (see Plate X J is a little hard shield, <l, consisting of a stiff disk », made of Wr of paper pasted together, and turned up at the edge so as to S a yery^hallow receptacle, and covered with cotton cloth on tl«. oSI I second disk b, formed ot twisted cord, fits into this shallow ceptaele, and is held in place by the bamboo sheath e made o ribbed leaf of the bamboo, which is drawn tightly over it and twisted tfge Ser on the back, so as to form a handle. This latter convenient for the hand to grasp it by a strip of ™ f '^^ it and so arranged as to assume thejhai«J>faj;«^^ ' - Son,., ,ped,„™, m the U. S. N.tlon.l M„».». sio.; however, th.t thi. cubOBB IThlB clc.crii.tlon is based upou the object itself, rather tbau lUiou notes.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21782234_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
