About This Book
Volume 1 of a planned two volume instructional book illustrating various stages and techniques of Japanese woodblock print creation. For the book, Yoshida carved twenty woodblocks to illustrate, as he states in the books foreword (reproduced below), most traditional and some modern techniques of woodblock print production.
While the afterword mentions a future volume that will "cover some other important varieties of the Japanese print", it was never issued.
Foreword
This book has been compiled to illustrate varieties of the Japanese print with real hand printed examples. With a view to presenting as many different materials and methods as possible, the author has designed 11 prints specially for this purpose, using 11 different kinds of block and 12 kinds of Japanese paper. This covers most of the traditional techniques and some of the modern techniques which are suitable for production of multiple copies.
The reader who requires detailed information about the tools and processes involved may refer to the indicated pages of "Japanese Print Making" by Tōshi Yoshida & Rei Yuki (TUTTLE) which gives full explanations of both traditional and modern techniques of relief printing.
Tokyo
March, 1967 Tōshi Yoshida
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The Complete Book
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List of Prints |
No. 1 Single Block Impression
(descriptive information) |
No. 1 Single Block Impression |
| No. 2 Three-colored Single Impression
(descriptive information) | No. 2 Three-colored Single Impression |
No. 3 Monochrome Overprinting
with Two Blocks (First Block)
(descriptive information) |
No. 3 Monochrome Overprinting
with Two Blocks (First Block) |
No. 4 Monochrome Overprinting
with Two Blocks (Second Block)
(descriptive information) | No. 4 Monochrome Overprinting
with Two Blocks (Second Block)
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No. 5 Monochrome Overprinting
with Two Blocks (Finished Print)
(descriptive information) |
No. 5 Monochrome Overprinting
with Two Blocks (Finished Print) |
No. 6 Overprinting
with Three Blocks in Three Different Colors (First Block)
(descriptive information) |
No. 6 Overprinting
with Three Blocks in Three Different Colors (First Block) |
No. 7 Overprinting
with Three Blocks in Three Different Colors (Second Block)
(descriptive information) |
No. 7 Overprinting
with Three Blocks in Three Different Colors (Second Block) |
No. 8 Overprinting
with Three Blocks in Three Different Colors (Third Block)
(descriptive information) |
No. 8 Overprinting
with Three Blocks in Three Different Colors (Third Block) |
No. 9 Overprinting
with Three Blocks in Three Different Colors (Finished Print)
(descriptive information)
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| No. 9 Overprinting
with Three Blocks in Three Different Colors (Finished Print) |
No. 10 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions (First Block)
(descriptive information) |
No. 10 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions (First Block)
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| No. 11 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions (Second Block)
(descriptive information) |
No. 11 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions (Second Block)
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No. 12 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions (Third Block)
(descriptive information) |
| No. 12 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions (Third Block) |
No. 13 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions
(First and Fourth Block)
(descriptive information) |
No. 13 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions
(First and Fourth Block) |
No. 14 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions
(Fifth Block and the Preceding Blocks)
(descriptive information) |
No. 14 Overprinting of Different Type Impressions
(Fifth Block and the Preceding Blocks) |
No. 15 Use of Various Blocks
(descriptive information)
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No. 15 Use of Various Blocks
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No. 16 Printing with Unsized Paper (descriptive information) |
No. 16 Printing with Unsized Paper
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No. 17 Printing with Rough-surface Paper
(descriptive information) |
No. 17 Printing with Rough-surface Paper |
No. 18 Embossing
(descriptive information) |
| No. 18 Embossing |
No. 19 Blurred Printing
(descriptive information) |
No. 19 Blurred Printing |
No. 20 Gradation Printing
(Bokashi-zuri)
(descriptive information) |
No. 20 Gradation Printing
(Bokashi-zuri) |
Afterword by artist |
| Inside Rear Cover |
Rear Cover |
Book Details
| IHL Catalog | #2145 |
| Title | Varieties of the Japanese Print, Volume 1 |
| Series |
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Artist
| Yoshida Tōshi (1911-1995)
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Signature
|  Toshi Yoshida 吉田遠志 bottom of inside title page |
| Seal | not sealed
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| Date | March 1967 |
| Edition | first and only
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| Publisher | self-published by the artist |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent
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| Genre | ehon; shasei kikō (sketch-tour); sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous |
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| Format |
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| H x W Paper | overall book dimensions: 8 7/8 x 8 x 5/8 in. (22.5 x 20.3 x 1.6 cm)
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H x W Image
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| Collections This Print | Minneapolis Institute of Art 2013.29.624; The University of British Columbia Library Call Number: NE1310 .Y65 1967 |
| Reference Literature |
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last revision:8/17/2021 created
