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1) Process of producing and distributing the prints are compared to the process of wet rice cultivation (a theme introduced fr. China) 2) The artists (including Utamaro himself have been depicted in the guise of famous Geisha
1) Publisher (hanmoto) contacts an artist with a proposal for a new project 2) Ukiyo-e artist (e-shi) produces a black-ink preliminary design (hanshita-e) on thin paper and sends it to the Publisher. 3) Publisher applies for permission to proceed and the association censors design, if it is accepted it is stamped with seals of approval and returned to the publisher 4) Publisher offers a commission to prepare woodblock fr the design to an engraver . 5) Engraver (hori-shi) spreads design over woodblock of hard cherry and tracing the lines carves a woodblock that duplicates the design and has register marks (kento) for color printing 6) Printer (suri-shi) prints a number of monochrome prints for the artist to indicates colors he wants for each part of the print
Page 1 and 2: Ukiyo-e: Pictures of the Floating W
Page 3: After 1789 the shogunate establishe
Page 7: Kitagawa Utamaro, The Cultivation o
Page 10 and 11: Print 1: artist’s outline printed
Page 15 and 16: This is what the print wood look li
Page 20 and 21: This is how the print would look af
Page 25 and 26: After steps 1-13. The colors are st
Page 30 and 31: The last block prints the title and
Page 32: Hishikawa Moronobu Okumura Masanobu

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