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Color, in traditional Japanese woodblock printing, has a luminous transparency similar to watercolor yet of its own distinct effect. A unique quality that reflects the technique of brushing pigment and water onto carved blocks then pressing into the fibers of the paper in overlapping layers of color. Carving the design into cherry wood also begs a characteristic simplification of drawing which moves an image painted from life a step further into imaginative stylization.
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