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This pair of woodblock prints is from a volume published by the Shimbi Shoin printing house in Tokyo, Japan, in 1907, to illustrate the complex printing process used to reproduce original paintings. The painting reproduced here is by the nineteenth-century Japanese artist Shunsho Katsukawa, and required 127 separate woodblocks. Bound as a continuous accordion-fold book, the 127 pairs of prints each show, on the right and left respectively, the impression from the individual block, and the cumulative image of all blocks to that point.
A113385/R.B. Laufer 1907.1
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