David's Choice - Episode #12: The Mokuhankan Collection

This is the next in our 'David's Choice' series, where Tokyo-based woodblock printmaker David Bull introduces some of his favourite prints. In this episode, Dave introduces the Mokuhankan Collection, the 'museum' of beautiful old Japanese prints that he has gathered over the years.

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The Mokuhankan Collection:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection

The Mokuhankan website:
https://mokuhankan.com

Our Patreon page:
  / mokuhankan  

Our Twitch stream:
  / japaneseprintmaking  

Instagram:
  / mokuhankan  

Thank you for watching!

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Links relevant to this video:

The 'future Mokuhankan' story that Dave talked about in the video can be downloaded in .pdf form.
1) in single page layout, for easy reading on a tablet, etc.
https://mokuhankan.com/downloads/Moku...
2) in two-page spreads, for printing out as he did for the video:
https://mokuhankan.com/downloads/Moku...


All the prints in the Collection have 'direct links', so that the images can easily be shared when you want to show somebody an interesting item you have found. Here are links to the prints introduced in the video (in order of appearance):

The woman and horse:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...

Akashi-ban prints:
Pheasants:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Fugu:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Insect & fruit:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Urashisma Taro:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Mt. Fuji among clouds:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Crow on shrine Gate:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...

Kuchi-e prints:
Girl and Cricket:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Beauty with poem card:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Woman in Moonlight:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Scent of Chrysanthemums:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...

Books:
Matsuyama Mirror:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Momotaro (French):
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Favourite Flowers:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...

Colour printing process:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
(the finished print):
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...

Taisho-era subscription prints:
Kaigetsudo beauty:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Pleasure Quarter:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Ebisu/Daikoku parody dancers: https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Heron Maiden:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Mt. Fuji through a window:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...

Tokaido senshafuda set:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
The wild boar:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
47 Ronin (matchlabels):
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Nature scenes (matchlabels):
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Summer beauties (matchlabels):
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Yokai (matchlabels):
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...

Koi pond:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
Kabuki 18:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...
The Giant Stride:
https://mokuhankan.com/collection/ind...

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0:00 Introduction
7:22 Surimono in the Collection
9:55 Kuchi-e in the Collection
11:39 What do we have?
15:39 Books in the Collection
21:06 The photos are important!
25:07 More ukiyo-e in the Collection
28:37 How to look at the Collection
41:53 Wrap-up and an Announcement