It's incredible how a man, with this amount of knowledge and history as him takes some time of his life just to teach all of this... I look up to you as a teacher and a figure of knowledge. It's great how youtube let us know this kind of people and let us listen to them as ir they were teaching us. Thank you, Dave. It's wonderful to have someone as you making videos. Thank you.
ProperlyParanoid in several chapters throughout the textbook there are interviews with various foreigners who have some interest in Japanese culture. Here is a picture from the Teacher’s copy with the dialogue. There’s a video interview that goes along with it in the QR code. imgur.com/a/7D5dmGZ
Hah! I remember doing this one ... quite a few years ago! The QR code decodes here: sw31.tsho.jp/02pk/e5/over/unit5/movie/ "First, carve the block!" :-)
I am always impressed by the areas that lack color in the print: the cross-hatch pattern, snow flakes, stitching. When I consider the negative space it amazes me the thinking, and skill that needed to go into it.
This was amazing. Thank you David for such beautiful presentation of ukiyo-e power and importance. I remember watching the lecture from Boston MFA with very similar subject and I have to say, however interesting and enlightening that was, your talk is far more engaging and satisfying. Love your work
These are my favorite types of videos. They're informative and give you time to look at the prints and appreciate them. Really hoping you are able to make more of these or another David's choice soon.
I could watch these videos all day long , Dave 's obvious passion for this Art technique has rubbed off on me and I'm now collecting books on the prints etc. Sadly having Arthritis in my wrists and fingers carving my own blocks ain't gonna happen. But I can still enjoy the beauty of this incredible art. Cheers Dave
The camera work is just amazing. It's like being 2" away from the actual prints. I've spent these past Covid months having lunch (at my desk) with you David. Best lunch dates of my life. One day, hope to visit you and your shop in Tokyo.
You are a remarkable story teller. These stories remind me a lot of Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcasts. Told in a similar way and with the same amount of passion which makes it so much better to listen to.
I can not express the level of gratitude I feel for being able to learn and respect a history I will never know from someone who has devoted their life to it. This sort of video all of us can feel a different energy coming from it in the sense that we can traverse time to see a shard of a curtain pulled aside and can just get a glimpse of the struggle, evolution, and power of a time in history. I'm both ecstatic and saddened whenever I find such powerful history, because it reminds me how many histories we will never be able to know even this much. Videos like this I can already tell every time I find them are the true treasures of humanity. We won't know it for a while, but I sense a timelessness that can't be expressed, and I believe it's tapping into an unknown future where we as an evolved species can look back to our roots in a way we can't yet fathom. And these videos will be a major source for all.
I'm absolutely in love with your videos. You make it so easy to appreciate these prints and the historical value they hold. Definitely want to learn more about Japanese history after this one!
Thank you for this! Ukiyo-e is truly my special interest, your channel is amazing and informative. I take a lot of inspiration from those prints when it comes to my own art.
Hey Dave!! I stumbled across your “remembering a carver” episode and I have been listening now casually for some years. You are a great speaker and very relaxing and passionate about your craft. I praise you and hold you in the highest regard
I really like to see these art pieces in the context of their history. I would definitely watch more of these kinds of videos. Makes the Art itself more meaningful in the present.
Videos like this are what make the internet magic. Thanks Dave for sharing your knowledge of history and prints with us. And thanks for those close up shots -- they really bring the print to life.
I just started watching your videos and the first one I had seen was from years ago. Came to your channel and so happy you're still posting and doing well
Dave, I’ve been watching your videos for quite some time now and it’s so good to see you’re still rolling out these videos, always love the lessons of your videos and the information you give us, thank you!
Excellent video David congratulations! it summarizes the points of a video no longer available at you tube-:historical artifacts ukiyo-e prints, where you appear saying some points. thanks for sharing!
Lovely bit of history. The seditious impact of the theater of the day reminded me of the affect writers and playwrights had during the Elizabethan era, in another highly stratified island nation too no less... Thanks Dave!
Mr Bull, you are such an likeable man and have become my favourite channel to visit on RUclips at the moment. I'm very interested in the art of woodblock printing, but have recently become more interested in you as an individual too. Apologies if you've already done this but I'd love to see a sort of biographical video about you and your career, especially to see some of your early hobby prints and how you got to where you are. Its a real cool talent you have. Greetings from Worcestershire UK
I am so glad you uploaded this video. I have always loved the Hiroshige series. I think they were the picture postcards of the day. I just imagine travelers buying them to show to friends so they could say, "I've been there. I've seen that." Sadly, much of Japan no longer looks like that. For us as modern viewers the series gives us a valuable historical context of what Japan looked like at the time. My favorite print by Hiroshige, though not of that series, is New Years Eve Foxfires at Ogi. It shows a gnarled tree in a very rural setting. From what I understand Tokyo over-ran the area and built over it except for the fox temple. Today only the temple area and a descendant of the tree remain in that spot. A kitsune festival is still held in that area of Tokyo every New Years Eve.
Prints that were deemed "illegal" by the higher-ups because they somewhat exposed the social life of a society that the ruling power wouldn't be pleased with. Sounds like they're the old Japan counterpart of how authorities would see how raunchy magazines, music concerts, metal bands, TV shows, comic books, cartoons, movies, games, etc. were destroying the youth at some point of modern history. And as usual, another amazing presentation, Dave!
Must be nice to have all your hard work rewarded, and I watched your videos about Ito Susumu. You get to do what you love as a job and get to share your creation with thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people. You likely even inspire people with what you do, and you get to pass down what you do to the new carvers working underneath you.
I know the significance the prints had on Western art, especially in France, but I never took much thought of what influence they had in their native land. Thanks for the lesson.
This is one of your best videos, David- very informative! Can you think of any particular woodblock print books that helped change society during the Edo period? If you ever do another presentation on the books, please mention the fukuro, the wrappers they were sold with. MFA Boston has a collection of them, but they don't seem to have the books they came with. I have some fukuro in my collection, and you are welcome to use the images on my Flickr site if you want to. They are an interesting part of Japanese publishing, as the designs tend to be a bit more adventurous than the book covers themselves. My best to your and your staff, and hope to get over to Tokyo to meet you soon.
me: about to go to bed at 3 am
dave: uploads
timezones suck but these videos are always worth it
thank you
It's incredible how a man, with this amount of knowledge and history as him takes some time of his life just to teach all of this... I look up to you as a teacher and a figure of knowledge. It's great how youtube let us know this kind of people and let us listen to them as ir they were teaching us. Thank you, Dave. It's wonderful to have someone as you making videos. Thank you.
"Got a minute?"
Dave, you know we do
always
Dave is back! Glad to see you're doing well
You can watch him livestream his work a handful of times a week on Twitch.
www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking
laythistorest thanks for the twitch link. I started watching the last one.
btw.: when I google Shin hanga artists, David Bull is Nr 45
I've been teaching English in Japan and noticed your name in one of the new elementary textbooks. I'll be following your channel from now on!
Please do tell!
@@ProperlyParanoid he taught english for a time, thats all I know
ProperlyParanoid in several chapters throughout the textbook there are interviews with various foreigners who have some interest in Japanese culture. Here is a picture from the Teacher’s copy with the dialogue. There’s a video interview that goes along with it in the QR code. imgur.com/a/7D5dmGZ
Hah! I remember doing this one ... quite a few years ago! The QR code decodes here: sw31.tsho.jp/02pk/e5/over/unit5/movie/
"First, carve the block!" :-)
Dave cementing himself in kids' learning alongside LeVar Burton, Bob Ross, and Mr. Rogers
Those are my favorite types of videos. History of art, with the soothing voice of David Bull himself. Thank you!
I am always impressed by the areas that lack color in the print: the cross-hatch pattern, snow flakes, stitching. When I consider the negative space it amazes me the thinking, and skill that needed to go into it.
The embossing on that print is just insane
"goodnight for now" how did you know i'm using this to fall asleep ? lol
😏
good business to know your audience
Word. Are they aware we’re here, at least partly, for the ASMR?
airforce9872 I’ve been falling asleep to this ever since it came out!!! it works like a charm
I'm trying to save for a trip to Japan. Dave's shop is going to be one of my first stops :)
Do it! It’s so worth it
There's nothing like listening to someone talk about what they love. Thanks for such a pleasant half hour.
This was amazing. Thank you David for such beautiful presentation of ukiyo-e power and importance. I remember watching the lecture from Boston MFA with very similar subject and I have to say, however interesting and enlightening that was, your talk is far more engaging and satisfying. Love your work
"Vitally important?"
"Yes."
Me: Really?
"You got a minute?"
Me: Yes.
This video will push the channel over 100k subscribers. Congratulations, much deserved
wow, that intro has to be one of the most motivating/engaging introductions of a video i have ever seen/heard
dave asking if i got a minute- boi i could spend an entire lifetime learning from this precious soul.
It's been so long since I've seen your videos, I'm glad I found my way back to your channel!
These are my favorite types of videos. They're informative and give you time to look at the prints and appreciate them. Really hoping you are able to make more of these or another David's choice soon.
I could watch these videos
all day long , Dave 's obvious passion for this Art technique has rubbed off on me and I'm now collecting books on the prints etc. Sadly having Arthritis in my wrists and fingers carving my own blocks ain't gonna happen.
But I can still enjoy the beauty of this incredible art. Cheers Dave
The camera work is just amazing. It's like being 2" away from the actual prints. I've spent these past Covid months having lunch (at my desk) with you David. Best lunch dates of my life. One day, hope to visit you and your shop in Tokyo.
You are a remarkable story teller. These stories remind me a lot of Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcasts. Told in a similar way and with the same amount of passion which makes it so much better to listen to.
I can not express the level of gratitude I feel for being able to learn and respect a history I will never know from someone who has devoted their life to it. This sort of video all of us can feel a different energy coming from it in the sense that we can traverse time to see a shard of a curtain pulled aside and can just get a glimpse of the struggle, evolution, and power of a time in history. I'm both ecstatic and saddened whenever I find such powerful history, because it reminds me how many histories we will never be able to know even this much.
Videos like this I can already tell every time I find them are the true treasures of humanity. We won't know it for a while, but I sense a timelessness that can't be expressed, and I believe it's tapping into an unknown future where we as an evolved species can look back to our roots in a way we can't yet fathom. And these videos will be a major source for all.
Just the best content on this platform. This is quality.
I think my favorite part of these videos is the historical aspect. It’s always fascinating to learn art history.
Love those stories! Thanks, Dave, and good to see you doing well.
I'm absolutely in love with your videos. You make it so easy to appreciate these prints and the historical value they hold. Definitely want to learn more about Japanese history after this one!
Thank you for this! Ukiyo-e is truly my special interest, your channel is amazing and informative. I take a lot of inspiration from those prints when it comes to my own art.
Oh, yes please! More like this, Dave-san. Made my morning, thank you!
Hey Dave!! I stumbled across your “remembering a carver” episode and I have been listening now casually for some years. You are a great speaker and very relaxing and passionate about your craft. I praise you and hold you in the highest regard
THANK YOU, DAVID. I HAVE A DEEP FASCINATION FOR JAPANESE HISTORY, AND ENJOYED THE INSIGHT IMMENSELY.
Soo good to hear from you again sir. It's a joy to be informed and entertained by you again.
I really like to see these art pieces in the context of their history. I would definitely watch more of these kinds of videos.
Makes the Art itself more meaningful in the present.
Videos like this are what make the internet magic. Thanks Dave for sharing your knowledge of history and prints with us. And thanks for those close up shots -- they really bring the print to life.
An absolute joy to watch you tell stories!
glad to see you going strong with your work. you're a welcome sight in these trying times.
This is such a treat of a video! A history lesson and some of the most amazing prints in detail. Thank you David!
Όπ, δεν περιμένα να δω έναν Έλληνα :D
@@ΧρῆστοςΚωστελίδης-γ3φ Η τέχνη ευτυχώς δεν αναγνωρίζει σύνορα :-)
I always appreciate your videos, David. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing such a rich and amazing style of art
20:05 WOW, love the snow
Wish I had a steady enough hand to do this kind of art. So amazing how much detail these woodblocks have. True talent
I just started watching your videos and the first one I had seen was from years ago. Came to your channel and so happy you're still posting and doing well
Dave almost hitting 100k subs. I'm very glad all this knowledge is getting to more people every day.
I’m about to start teaching myself art history!!! this is great prep C:
Dave, I’ve been watching your videos for quite some time now and it’s so good to see you’re still rolling out these videos, always love the lessons of your videos and the information you give us, thank you!
This is a fascinating video. Rarely have I learned so much in such a short time. The prints were beautiful.
These videos about Japanese history are always my favorite.
Its 130 AM, I'm about to go to sleep. I check my subscriptions. David Bull has uploaded a new video. I am not sleeping.
Excellent video David congratulations! it summarizes the points of a video no longer available at you tube-:historical artifacts ukiyo-e prints, where you appear saying some points. thanks for sharing!
You are a wonderful story teller David😔🙏😇😊
Thank you so much. Enightening and fascinating.
Masterful and enthralling storytelling as always Dave, these uploads are always a treat
Lovely bit of history. The seditious impact of the theater of the day reminded me of the affect writers and playwrights had during the Elizabethan era, in another highly stratified island nation too no less... Thanks Dave!
Another excellent presentation thank you for keeping this art alive!
Thanks for another fascinating history lesson and beautiful prints!
Excellent video Dave! Thank you for always sharing your knowledge and passion.
Unbelievably beautiful. Thank you
I could see all of the things you described happening in my mind. What a wild time to have lived in.
Great video Dave that gave a great contextual perspective on this wonderful body of work. Thank you.
Your story telling skills is amazing. I love this video so much.
Thank you. This may be my favorite video you've ever done.
Wow, thanks for this Dave. Amazing and insightful and beautiful and informative.
Dave! Your audio is back to being good now! Keep it up, love the content!!
Fantastic. Your videos just keep getting better!
Grrreat video, thanks a lot for doing this! A passion like yours is hard to find these days.
Got a minute? I got all the time in the world for you Mr. Bull.
24:06 This is quite possibly my favorite design full stop. I have it on a phone case from a few years ago that I won't throw away now. :P
I love your videos. You are a true sensi of the history of Japanese art.
Ones again, very interesting and captivating video! Please come back soon1
The history lesson was incredible. Thank you
Thanks David! That was absolutely fascinating.
I have a wonderful idea that could easily sell out in seconds. Ooo how much these would be cherished
Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers! Very much deserved!
This is a really, really well-done dialectical historical analysis of the Tokugawa era
Well presented! Thanks Dave!
Excellent and very insightful lecture. Thank you.
Mr Bull, you are such an likeable man and have become my favourite channel to visit on RUclips at the moment. I'm very interested in the art of woodblock printing, but have recently become more interested in you as an individual too. Apologies if you've already done this but I'd love to see a sort of biographical video about you and your career, especially to see some of your early hobby prints and how you got to where you are. Its a real cool talent you have. Greetings from Worcestershire UK
Leaving my comment up but I have just seen 'beginnings' which is exactly what I wanted... if you see this cheers Dave!
I am so glad you uploaded this video. I have always loved the Hiroshige series. I think they were the picture postcards of the day. I just imagine travelers buying them to show to friends so they could say, "I've been there. I've seen that." Sadly, much of Japan no longer looks like that. For us as modern viewers the series gives us a valuable historical context of what Japan looked like at the time. My favorite print by Hiroshige, though not of that series, is New Years Eve Foxfires at Ogi. It shows a gnarled tree in a very rural setting. From what I understand Tokyo over-ran the area and built over it except for the fox temple. Today only the temple area and a descendant of the tree remain in that spot. A kitsune festival is still held in that area of Tokyo every New Years Eve.
Thank you. This art form is amazing.
Never a disappointment watching your videos. Thanks.
Wonderful seeing you, sir.
Prints that were deemed "illegal" by the higher-ups because they somewhat exposed the social life of a society that the ruling power wouldn't be pleased with. Sounds like they're the old Japan counterpart of how authorities would see how raunchy magazines, music concerts, metal bands, TV shows, comic books, cartoons, movies, games, etc. were destroying the youth at some point of modern history.
And as usual, another amazing presentation, Dave!
Nice with a new video, looking forward to listen to this when its time for sleep.
You are missed, sir! On the latest waiting list for the Great Wave. Worth waiting for!
Thanks for the history lesson and the painting, impressed!! ^^
Bless you for your knowledge and wisdom-wonderful video
Dave we need more videos!!
I came here to see you and I have boxes full of minutes Dave!
I stopped everything I was doing the moment I saw the RUclips notification.
Must be nice to have all your hard work rewarded, and I watched your videos about Ito Susumu. You get to do what you love as a job and get to share your creation with thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people. You likely even inspire people with what you do, and you get to pass down what you do to the new carvers working underneath you.
It is indeed very rewarding ... but if I don't get busy and get the next video done soon, the fans will be after me with pitchforks!
@@seseragistudio *kicks grindstone away* That's not true. We'd never do that.
Thanks for your videos Dave. I have my own collection in Hawaii
refreshing to see you did this in one take
So spooky I was just reading this from Dave's original woodblock.com site, but it's always so much more of a joy to hear from the man himself.
Amazing Video! Thanks David
Thanks Dave!
I know the significance the prints had on Western art, especially in France, but I never took much thought of what influence they had in their native land. Thanks for the lesson.
This is one of your best videos, David- very informative! Can you think of any particular woodblock print books that helped change society during the Edo period? If you ever do another presentation on the books, please mention the fukuro, the wrappers they were sold with. MFA Boston has a collection of them, but they don't seem to have the books they came with. I have some fukuro in my collection, and you are welcome to use the images on my Flickr site if you want to. They are an interesting part of Japanese publishing, as the designs tend to be a bit more adventurous than the book covers themselves. My best to your and your staff, and hope to get over to Tokyo to meet you soon.
thank you so much for these videos
Another excellent and highly enjoyable video. I've also noticed your channel has almost hit the 100k subscriber milestone. Congratulations!!!
Thank you for the history lesson.
Congratulations on the 100k!
Whoop whoop 100k