Designer: Katsushika Hokusai | Carver: David Bull | Printer: Chiharu Kawai

Paper size: 42cm by 27cm | Enlargement | Shipping Code: [L] ? | Currency: $ / £ / €

Price: $ 150.00£ 110.00€ 130.00 [Temporarily out of stock]

Description: [Note: There has been huge demand for this print, ever since Dave made his series of videos showing the process of making it (YouTube playlist). In the beginning, we were able to basically keep up with the requests, but we fell behind, and for many years we have been running a waiting list. But with many thousands of names now on that list, it has become a bit dishonest to pretend that we will actually be able to provide a print to all those people. So it is with regret that we have now closed the list for new entries.

(There is an idea in play to have our carvers prepare another set of blocks, but this is on the back-burner at present, mostly due to our lack of printer availability.)

This edition of Hokusai's iconic image had its origins in the autumn of 2014, being offered to the backers of a Mokuhankan Kickstarter campaign that we ran to help raise funds for the building of our new shop in the Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Our edition is based on a copy in the Metropolitan Museum of Art - every line carefully re-traced and then cut into hard cherry wood. The prints are being made on the famous Echizen Hosho washi from the workshop of Mr. Ichibei Iwano, a Living National Treasure.

How the Print was Made …
We have prepared an 8-page pamphlet outlining the process of making the print, and it can be downloaded (in .pdf form) here.

The cartouche area is carved on a boxwood insert, to help the lettering last longer under repeated impressions.

We have tried to make the carving match the 'brushwork' of the earliest copies as closely as possible ...

Each copy is stamped with the names of the designer, carver, and printer ...