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Woodblock or wood block may refer to:

  • Woodblock (instrument), a percussion musical instrument
  • Woodblock printing, a method of printing in which an image is carved into the surface of a piece of wood
  • Woodblock graffiti
  • Toy block, a type of construction toy often made out of wood

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Woodblock

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woodblock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Woodblock or wood block may refer to: Woodblock (instrument), a percussion musical instrument Woodblock...

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Woodblock printing

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Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in...

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Woodblock printing in Japan

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Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used...

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History of printing

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production and woodblock printing in other parts of Asia such as Korea and Japan. The Chinese Buddhist Diamond Sutra, printed by woodblock on 11 May 868...

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa

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Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa') is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during...

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History of printing in East Asia

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printing called mechanical woodblock printing on paper started in China during the 7th century in the Tang dynasty. The use of woodblock printing spread throughout...

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Woodblock printing in Korea

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history of Woodblock printing in Korea (목판인쇄) contains a famous history like the Tripitaka Koreana. The world's oldest surviving woodblock print is thought...

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Visual arts

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developed some 1,100 years ago as illustrations alongside text cut in woodblocks for printing on paper. Initially images were mainly religious but in the...

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Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

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widely been recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. He is also regarded as one of the form's greatest...

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Glossary of graffiti

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addition to top-to-bottom as that will exceed the definition of the term. woodblock graffiti Artwork painted on a small portion of plywood or similar inexpensive...

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Kunisada

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most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded...

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Haeinsa

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preservation techniques but when test woodblocks were found to have mildewed, the intended move was canceled and the woodblocks remained at Haeinsa. It also offers...

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Woodblock printing on textiles

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Woodblock printing on textiles is the process of printing patterns on textile, usually of linen, cotton or silk, by means of carved wooden blocks. The...

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Hokusai

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period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic...

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Wooden fish

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also known as a Chinese temple block, wooden bell, or muyu, is a type of woodblock that originated from East Asia that is used by monks and lay people in...

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Japan

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Hokusai's 19th-century ukiyo-e woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa...

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One Hundred Aspects of the Moon

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Hyakushi (月百姿) in Japanese, is a collection of 100 ōban size ukiyo-e woodblock prints by Japanese artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi printed in batches, starting...

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Hiroshi Yoshida

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September 19, 1876 – April 5, 1950) was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. Along with Hasui Kawase, he is regarded as one of the greatest...

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Ninja

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Drawing of the archetypical ninja from a series of sketches by Hokusai. Woodblock print on paper. Vol. six, 1817....

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South Korea

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Tripitaka Koreana — the Buddhist canon (Tripiṭaka) carved onto roughly 80,000 woodblocks and stored (and still remaining) at Haeinsa, also a UNESCO World Heritage...

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Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus

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The Liber de arte distillandi de simplicibus (Book on the art of distillation out of simple ingredients [«simplicia»] or Kleines Destillierbuch): 1  is...

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Movable type

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be printed on the paper. By the Song dynasty, woodblock printing came to its heyday. Although woodblock printing played an influential role in spreading...

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. He was a member of the Utagawa school. The range...

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