Hasui Kawase creating a woodblock print [English narration]
Channel: mokuhanga1
Date: 2021-06-20

Catalogue raisonné: https://mokuhanga1.com/kawase-hasui/

Film title: A Life in Prints: Kawase Hasui
Film released in 1956. Hasui was filmed at Nara, November 22, 1955.
Directed by Watanabe Tadasu

Artist: Kawase Hasui (1883-1957)
Carver: Maeda Kentaro (1900-1987)
Printer: Ono Gintaro (1884-1965)
Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962)

Print title: "Western Hamlet, Hōryū Temple" 

00:00 Hasui Kawase
07:15 rough sketch
09:43 pencil drawing
10:25 brushwork for keyblock hanshita

12:00 Kentaro Maeda
12:17 pasting hanshita
13:30 sharpening hangito tool
14:40 carving and clearing keyblock

19:50 color separations
21:39 Hasui coloring with cinnabar (toxic!)
23:26 Mr Maeda pasting color separations
25:15 carving and clearing color blocks

28:23 Gintaro Ono wrapping a baren
31:16 moistening paper
31:58 pigments
32:40 keyblock impression
33:35 colour impressions
33:50 adjusting registration
38:14 final print

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