Laura Gascoigne

The art of Japanese woodblock printing

Two new exhibitions of the art form unveil the prowess of the printmakers whose work still has the power to surprise

Toyohara Kunichika’s ‘Three Actors and Egrets in an Edo Winter Setting’ (1864) . © Collection of frank milner

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