Japanese Art Print Biography.
Technics of printing are introduced during the 6th century AD from China alongside Buddhism, and it is actually in Japan that are found the earliest dated printed documents in the world that have been found to this day (although surely earlier documents have existed), the Hyakumanto darani (8th century). Paper was already massively produced during Nara (710-794). Then succeeds a long period during which there is no printing at all, with a few exceptions of prints from wood blocks; yet books were imported from China, and some were copied by hand. It will be only during the late 12th-early 13th century that they are again printed in important quantities; both at Nara and Kyoto. Again, those will remain until the 14th century mostly copies of Buddhist texts and comments of mantras in monasteries, in which most of the printing of that period is done. Other types of books like fiction are known but only copied by hand.
Japanese Art Print
Japanese Art Print
Japanese Art Print
Japanese Art Print
Japanese Art Print
Japanese Art Print
Japanese Art Print
Japanese Art Print
Japanese Art Print
Junichiro Sekino Japanese Woodblock Print Art Architecture Collection
Japanese Art Print
Ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking with Keizaburo Matsuzaki
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