ABSTRACT
Old Japanese colour-prints are printed on a sheet of mulberry-bark paper, and are the product of three different craftsmen: the artist who drew the original design, the block-maker or engraver who transferred the design to the wood, and the printer. A block was cut for each colour in addition to the outline or key-block. The drawing made by the artist, with whose name alone the print is generally associated, was done in Indian ink with a brush on very thin paper. From the outline or key-block a series of proofs was taken, on one of each of which was-painted by the artist the part or parts of the print to appear in each separate colour; from each proof so painted was cut an equivalent block, though if two colours were widely separated they might be put on one block.
