Shoichi Kitamura Close Up: Ways of Mokuhanga Carving and Printing

In this close up video of Shoichi Kitamura’s demonstration, he shows samples of woodblocks and test prints to reveal the differences in representation based on different ways of carving and printing. As he demonstrates how to carve a woodblock with a traditional Japanese carving knife, he will print with the woodblock to reveal the differences in printing.
Shoichi Kitamura graduated from the mokuhanga course in the printmaking department at Kyoto Seika University. He studied under Osamu Horita, a carver. He has since participated in Nagasawa Art Park as an instructor. He has also participated in a mokuhanga project at Singapore Tyler Print Institute and had a collaboration with local artists in Melbourne. Thereafter, he opened his own mokuhanga studio in Yamashina, Kyoto, and was engaged in a collaboration with Australian artists. Kitamura has done demonstrations in Japan and overseas. He is a member of the Kyoto Mokuhanga Craftsman Association, as well as Vice Branch Chief of the Ukiyo-e Mokuhanga Carving and Printing Preservation Association.
Since 2011, the International Mokuhanga Conference has been held every three years (Kyoto, Tokyo and Honolulu/Holualoa) at venues where the possibilities of traditional Japanese woodblock techniques can be explored among artists and adapted to new modes of representation. The 2017 conference was held at the East-West Center and University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Art Building before moving over the Big Island of Hawaiʻi where the Donkey Mill Art Center provided space in Holualoa.

[@artnorthwest1046]

Thanks Hawaii 2017 and Shoichi Kitamura. This is a really instructive
video, and the two layerings of paste and paste plus wood-bond was
pretty ingenious. This is going to give my prints a new feel, for sure.

[@lunanorth]

Thankyou that was wonderful to learn from

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[@susanus7031]

many thanks

[@marlenevidibor8054]

Why can't we have a transcript of her translation?

[@Leviathanshadex]

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[@GoddessTara923]

What type of board can you use ? Would marine ply board be better then plain ply?

[@GeorgeLedyard]

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[@colinsmith5218]

there is a simultaneous wide-angle video in this series

[@GeorgeLedyard]

Give the translator a microphone too.