https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Gg-SCodzw
"Woodblock printmaker Dave Bull and British Museum scientist Capucine Korenberg
have been working together on a project to create woodblock prints from a
series of unpublished drawings by the Ukiyo-e School Japanese artist Hokusai.
The drawings come from a book by Hokusai; 'The Great Picture Book of
Everything' (Banmotsu ehon daizen zu 万物絵本大全図). The method of creating such a
book involved creating drawings that would ultimately be destroyed by carving
through them as you created the woodblocks need to mass-produce a run of books.
However, as this book was never published, the drawings survive.The question of
whether these particular drawings were ever intended to be carved though, or
whether they were actually reference drawings has never been answered.
So Dave, his team and Capucine have selected 12 of Hokusai's drawings to
painstakingly try to reconstruct what the 'final' pages of this unpublished
book might have looked like, and in the process, tried to work out whether
these drawings were ever destined for the chisel."
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