Kaoru Saito Mezzotint Basket Fine Japanese inkstone box

Fine Japanese inkstone box

he protects the great treasure pagoda of Buddhist offerings and divvies these out to faithful believers

Scholars contend that silver is used to ward off evil in the Miao culture

The interior with a circular support for an oil lamp dish

The wooden base tapers in the middle and is joined to a thin

Kaoru Saito Mezzotint Basket Fine Japanese inkstone boxFollowing WWII, Japanese artists were exposed to western printmaking. Rather than copy western techniques, the Japanese blended existing woodblock techniques (Sosaku Hanga and Shin Hanga) with western techniques if they used western techniques at all. One technique that some adopted was called mezzotint. Mezzotint is made by taking a plate and marking it with thousands of little dots using a metal tool with small teeth, called a "rocker". In printing,