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                  VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM CATALOGUES




TOOLS AND MATERIALS ILLUSTRATING THE JAPANESE METHOD OF COLOUR-PRINTING

    A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION EXHIBITED IN THE MUSEUM




                            By Edward Strange




London
PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE

1913
            [THE MAKING OF COLOUR-PRINTS--WOMEN AS ENGRAVERS.]

UTAMARO.--Yedo Meibutsu Nishikiye Kosaku. "The making of colour-prints, the
famous product of Yedo: after the engraver's rough engraving the design is
    carefully carved."  An illustration of the carving of wood-blocks
    fancifully represented as being done by women. From a print in the
                   Victoria and Albert Museum. J. 5040.





CONTENTS


PREFATORY NOTE
HISTORICAL NOTE
THE DRAWING
CUTTING THE BLOCK
PRINTING
PAPER
BOOKS OF REFERENCE





PREFATORY NOTE


This pamphlet has been prepared by Mr. Edward F. Strange, of the
Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design, for use primarily in
connection with a collection of Tools, Materials and Examples, specially
brought together and now exhibited in the Museum, to illustrate the
technique of Japanese Colour-printing from wood-blocks. The descriptive
matter has been somewhat amplified, in order to render it of value to
those who cannot immediately refer to the Museum collections.

The works of reference consulted, are named herein; and acknowledgment
must also be made to Mr. Hogitaro Inada, for translations from the
Japanese, kindly supplied by him.

                                                              CECIL SMITH.
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1913.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


UTAMARO.--Yedo Meibutsu Nishikiye Kosaku. "The making