Woodblock print showing a night view of the back of a woman as she walks away past a glowing street lantern. The woman is wearing a red, patterned kimono, with her hair in a traditional Japanese hairstyle. The image is in the typical ukiyo-e style - simple, but elegant, brush strokes outline flat blocks of colour for the figure of the woman and lantern. The background is just solid grey.
Digital copy of the original woodblock print, split into the black keylines, grey background, red kimono and lantern, and the yellow collar and pattern on the kimono.
I've been teaching myself Japanese woodblock printing - "mokuhanga" - for a bit now, so it might be interesting to post something of my attempts.
My current print is the 'Fuchū' vignette taken from panel 6 of #Hiroshige's 'harimaz-e' series, Pictures of the […]
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