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Fujii-san's Kunimasa actor
Posted by Dave Bull on May 20, 2012 [Permalink]
It's Sunday evening here Ome, and young printer trainee Fujii-san has now left after a weekend of practice work. She actually goes all the way home on Saturday night - more than two hours one way - and then comes over again fresh on Sunday morning.
(I have made some basic inquiries with people who own empty houses nearby, with the idea of renting something that people like Fujii-san could use, but haven't come up with anything yet. I've had requests to buy the places, which I of course can't afford, cheap as they are, but nobody seems to be willing to rent one out ...)
Fujii-san is currently working on a small-scale reproduction of a famous Kunimasa actor print that I carved for inclusion in my first Hanga Treasure Chest some years back:
She's printing them 'two-up' - one on each end of a longer strip of paper. The particular sheet here is from her batch of 'practice' paper, a kind of white paper we have found that takes moisture pretty well, giving a reasonable imitation of the 'real' printing process.
But in her stack she also had a few sheets of proper washi, and on these, the impressions are much better:
These aren't saleable yet, but she's coming along well. She's very fast at the work, a bit too fast for my liking, as I would prefer that she take a bit more time and spread the pigment more evenly. Hopefully, she'll find her balance soon ...
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