Kaoru Saito Mezzotint Basket In addition

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Such designs were often incorporated into household and temple furnishings to invite abundance and protection

Fine Japanese inkstone box

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Kaoru Saito Mezzotint Basket In additionFollowing WWII, Japanese artists were exposed to western printmaking. Rather than copy western techniques, the Japanese blended existing woodblock techniques (Sosaku Hanga and Shin Hanga) with western techniques if they used western techniques at all. One technique that some adopted was called mezzotint. Mezzotint is made by taking a plate and marking it with thousands of little dots using a metal tool with small teeth, called a "rocker". In printing,