Japanese Woodblock Printmaking Workshop - Hakobi

This is the first in a series of videos demonstrating various traditional techniques and tools in the Japanese mokuhanga woodblock printmaking industry and how we use them today here at Mokuhankan.

Today's video is about the pigment brushes our printers use, known as 'hakobi' (運び) or 'tokibo' (解き棒). First Suga-san tells us a little bit about what hakobi are for and why she makes her own instead of only using store-bought ones, and then she demonstrates the whole process from start to finish. Finally, we have a slideshow at the end going over the tying steps again for you to follow while making your own.

We have a list of ideas and have started the process of making more of these - but please feel free to leave a comment about what techniques and tools you are interested in learning about so we can consider your ideas for future videos.

Narration and demonstrations: Natsuki Suga
Cinematography: Yasuhiro Aoyama and Cameron Hilker
Editing and Subtitling: Cameron Hilker
Hasegawa Typeface: Markku Mujunen (https://mokuhankan.com/fonts/ and http://markkumujunen.com/)

On Dave's personal website, there is more information on making these tools:
http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/ent...
http://woodblock.com/manga/hakobi/ind...

The Mokuhankan Twitch channel (where you can watch Dave use the tools shown here):
  / japaneseprintmaking  

The Mokuhankan website:
https://mokuhankan.com

Our Patreon campaign:
  / mokuhankan