Known for using multiple printing techniques, including the use of traditional and non-traditional barens for transferring images to paper from a carved woodblock, this print employs woodblock combined with etching techniques derived from the intaglio process.  Donald Jenkins notes that in another work in this series, "Clown No. 8," "Hagiwara has combined traditional woodblock techniques with a form of woodcut intaglio, which he invented, which creates lines that resemble those found in etching or drypoint."¹  "Hagiwara achieves this effect by scratching lines into his woodblocks with large sharpened nails or spikes.  He inks the blocks with water-base colors, then gently wipes the color off the surface as in intaglio plate printmaking, and, with full baren (rubbing pad) pressure on the back side of the paper, lifts sufficient color from the lines to create what we see."²  A subtle dusting of ground mica highlights the colors. 

The Artist's Circus and Clown Works