Doi Hanga collaboration : Part 1
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- This is the first in what is expected to become an ongoing video series explaining and illustrating the new collaboration between our Mokuhankan printmaking venture and the old Doi Hanga publishing house.
Doi Hanga has been in existence since the 1920s, but the current family members have no specific knowledge or experience of woodblock print publishing. We at Mokuhankan certainly do, and it's time to get together!
In this first episode we get a bit of background to how this has come about. The next episode will be an inspection of a typical block set, and the preparation for printing from it ...
Update: People have been asking about the book I show in the video. This was a private publishing effort a few years ago between our staffer Toshikazu Doi and his partner Ross Walker. They do still have copies of the catalogue available, and for more information please visit Mr. Walker's website:
www.koitsu.com/...
ISBN is 978-4-9904339-0-1
(The problem with the book is that it is stunningly heavy - 4kg - and thus expensive to ship. I have encouraged them to arrange a 'drop ship' location in the US to reduce this burden for purchasers ...)
Awesome how the blocks and table are having a reunion. Looking forward to seeing your work
Amazing. I really love these more "story-telling" episodes, and you are an amazing narrator. Looking forward to see the results of the woodblocks.
Always exciting to see Dave speaking about his work.
When I die I want David Bull to narrate my life in the same casual way he tells his stories...
Wonderful. A potentially Lost cultural treasure found and shared. I wish great success for the Doi family and you.
God damn I love you so much David
After watching the previous series and now just starting this one; Dave, you better pray at this guys shrine.
It is people like you that makes CZcams great! I love this!
So wonderful, can't wait to see this project unfold! The best channel on youtube for sure. Keep it up Dave!
I enjoy your knowledgeable explanations and infectious enthusiasm. Thank you.
This is great. I always look forward to your videos and am excited to learn more about the prints! Cheers from London, Canada.
I love these videos, can't wait to see more! Best of luck with this new project, David and co.
My jaw dropped when I saw the inside of that garage. What a treasure!
When I first saw your videos I had no idea how invested I could be in wood block printing! I'm so excited to see how this story develops. Your videos make my homesickness for Tokyo all the more bearable.
This is great! I had just recently really began to realize how Craftsmanship is becoming a lost art. Here you are helping reverse that trend. Well done Sir. May this work out in favor of all who are a part.
Man this is great. I'm well strapped in for this ride!
That Aki in Miyajima is something of high interest to me as I've visited that beautiful place.
Keep up the great work Mokuhankan!
+B Mart. Hopefully this time around we won't need seat belts!
Best of luck in this new project David, I love all the knowledge, wisdom, passion and joy you put in all the videos, they are truly invaluable treasures. Greetings from México.
Wow! Really happy to see you got access to these blocks and I hope this collaboration will end up in a number of beautiful "new" prints. :)
This is so exciting! I really like shin-hanga. It's great that new prints will be available. I can see why you are so excited.
So fun. I love this!
Very excited to see this project!
You are a fantastic storyteller! Thanks for posting the vids.
What a wonderful find....looking forward to more videos
This sounds wonderful!
This is really incredible news, and what an amazing opportunity. I am very excited to see how the work goes in reviving these old blocks. Gambatte kudasai!
wow, just came here from Switch & Lever, and I think I'm gonna enjoy your "good stuff" sir. So, subscribed, curious, ready to be enchanted and enlightened...
Keep on trucking ! (from France)
Fantastic! Looking forward to seeing the results of this
Japan has a lovely atmosphere.
I was confused actually about the connection when I met Doi-san at the shop, but now its cleared up.
Unrelated I wonder if it was actually butter or margarine for the potatoes. A tub like that would seem quite expensive for the real stuff.
I can't wait to see more!
You should film your videos in 4K to allow us to see the work in the highest possible resolution.
Thank you
Since falling in love with this art form Koitsu has become one of my absolute favourite designers so this is a real treat both to watch and eventually collect. I notice that between portraits and this reprinting series that mokuhankan still hasn't discussed a new project on which you yourself will be the main carver. Is it greedy to assume there's yet another in the works or is the overhead of portraits, the shop and now the doi hanga collaboration such that carving yourself is no longer practical? It would be an understandable shame of course but I can't imagine you'd allow that to happen since it's the work you seem to enjoy most. In any case great video and project and can't wait for more!
+Paul Jones You know, I have such a happy and productive life going on right now I can't quite believe it, but this point is the one sticky point ... I'm still supposed to be in the middle of a personal print project (The Arts of Japan), with 8 prints now completed, and many collectors all over the world waiting for the rest. Of course I want to start the next 'special' project for Mokuhankan (topic is kind of decided ...), but the main Ukiyoe Heroes series (not the subscription prints) also desperately needs a kick forward right now ... And as you mentioned, on top of this my daily schedule is just jammed with all the other responsibilities. I tell you, I'm embarrassed to admit how much time I waste each day just sitting there paralyzed because I can't seem to grab a job and get down to it ... :-(
The food looks delicious
WONDERFUL.
I wounder what cind of news are printed in the old news Papers
This is super interesting!
Are you going to use sharper brighter colours to account for ageing of the original 1930's prints?
+Alan Fredericks This is a deep question, and we'll be addressing it as we move along. Basically, we have to decide between two competing philosophies: create prints that we think look the same as what they must have looked like back in 1936, or create prints that have an 'aged' tone already ...
Cool stuff man.
What's the title of the book in the video? I can't quite read it but would love to get a copy if possible!
+Michael Hashizume The Catalogue Raisonne of Tsuchiya Koitsu
+Michael Hashizume I've just updated the video description section to include information on the book ... Thanks for the interest!
I remember you mentioning during the great wave production videos that old wood blocks expand a lot during the first couple of printings, making the resulting prints of basically useless quality. Have you ever thought of digitizing the old print blocks with a 3D scanner in order to preserve them, and perhaps 3D print or cast in plaster or some other material new exact replicas of them that are capable of being printed on
Blocks _do_ expand during the printing, but usually within the reach of the printer's ability to keep things under control (by keeping the stack in the same order, adjusting the registration marks, etc. etc.). Blocks _could_ in theory be replicated, or created from the beginning in some other material, but - in order to create the type of colour impressions that typify Japanese woodblock prints - we simply need good cherry wood. Plywood, etc. just doesn't produce the same result. (Also please understand that for our _new_ work, we use blocks made from a plywood core faced with cherry wood, giving us the best of both worlds - stability + cherry ...)
David Bull thanks for the fast response. By the way I think you and your videos are absolutely fantastic. Keep up the great work. I was thinking more about the preservation side of things, although I know next to nothing about traditional Japanese wood block printing except what you've talked about in your videos, I assume that there are some old blocks that don't have a corresponding print in their collection to serve as a master, or are in danger of cracking if used to print, and I was thinking more along the lines of preserving those rather than using 3d scanning as the main method of reproducing blocks. It is possible to scan the blocks and feed the resulting 3d files into a very accurate c&c machine to carved it out onto a new wood block. I work with some people that have done a lot of work with 3d scanning ancient pottery using a very similar process for an international team of archeologists, which is where I got this idea from
David Bull if you are at all interested in using digitization to work on preserving the original blocks please contact us, as we would love to have the opportunity to work with you. We're the Maker Lab at Brandeis University. The email of director of the Maker lab, Ian Roy, the one who has worked with archeologists, is ianroy@brandeis.edu and my email is mlitke@brandeis.edu
Looking forward to following this project, very exciting!
I shouldn't have stay and watch that festival part at the end. I'm getting food cravings 5 minutes before my bedtime.
Hello Mr. Bull
In what video do you tell about getting this fabulous treasure of a carving bench ?
Thank you
Franços
It was in Episode #9 of the Great Wave project: czcams.com/video/W5PpSVIbp8A/video.html
@@seseragistudio thank you !!
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Gosh!!!!!
Hold on - that modern Tago Bay reprint featured in the beginning doesn't happen to be the one from your own carving, does it??
Checking closer against your catalogue image I see difference in colors. Curiously though I think your own sky gradation much closer matches the reprint. Is this simply how the original print once looked?
Pretty much every single version of the image that has been made down the years has wildly contrasting colours. I have a small web page showing six different version (all published by Doi) over the years, plus my own (at the bottom): woodblock.com/surimono/2003/5-9/tago/index.html
David Bull Thanks very much Dave! I'm making my way around your sites but haven't been around the block enough to check out all that surimono album content!
Hi David, thanks for sharing. Does anyone know what the print shown at 1:00 is? The Tokyo night time scene..
It's Koitsu's 'Ushigome Kagurazake', which we sometimes are able to have in stock: mokuhankan.com/catalogue/DH04.php We have access to the blocks, but none of our printers is yet quite ready for this one ...
Did you just say probs??
i feeeeeeeeeeel hungry!!!
How can I be a part of this?
What is the name of the artist mentioned?
The designer of the Matsushima print was Tsuchiya Koitsu.
just wondering, but is he wearing a wig?
Nope ... what you see is all me ... It just won't stop growing ... :~)
Love you videos you voice is so relaxing you my stress therapy 🌛
When I first saw your videos I had no idea how invested I could be in wood block printing! I'm so excited to see how this story develops. Your videos make my homesickness for Tokyo all the more bearable.