Processes of wood-cut printing explained
A Tokyo publisher, Shinbi Shoin, issued this 1916 volume explaining Japanese colour woodblock printing, apparently for readers interested in the craft. Its plates reproduce numbered prints from blocks, showing two women in a boat on a river with a distant shoreline, faithful copies of traditional ukiyo-e style. A designer might take from them the layered flat colour areas, the patterned kimono textures, and the calm asymmetrical composition of the boat cutting diagonally across the page.
