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What about the printing side? Well that too has
seen major changes in recent years. Here is one of
the poets from the first year's set, printed in
1989 and then re-printed from the same blocks in
1998.
Smooth and rich black areas are one of the
toughest tests of traditional Japanese printing -
and when the area in question contains small
'cut-outs' like this, the job becomes very
difficult. Ten years ago, the only way I could stop
the white areas from clogging up was to minimize
the amount of pigment going onto the block, with
the predictable result that the impression was weak
and thin.
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