Printing

Plate XVII.—Reproduction of a portion of the print shown on the preceding page, actual size, showing the treatment of the foliage and the expressive drawing of the tree trunk and stems.

 

 

Plate XVIII

Fig. 5.—Short chisel in split handle.

 

These are all the tools that are needed for block cutting. For keeping them in order it is well to have oilstones of three grades:

Fig 6

PAPER

 

The paper made by the Japanese from the inner bark of young shoots of the mulberry and certain other plants of similar fibre is beyond all others the best for wood-block printing. It is in itself a very remarkable material, and is used in Japan for a great variety of purposes, on account of the strength and toughness due to its long silky fibre.

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