Relief, intaglio, lithography, screenprinting, and reproduction methods.
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Hokusai's published sketchbooks share their title with which word now used for Japanese comics?
The Hokusai Manga contain sketches of everyday life and animals, rather than the ongoing stories common in modern comics.
Which technique produced Hokusai's famous landscape prints in multiple copies?
Hokusai supplied the designs, while skilled carvers and printers turned them into sheets that many people could buy.
Katsushika Hokusai, creator of The Great Wave, came from which country?
Hokusai used more than ten art names, including one that meant "Old Man Crazy to Paint".
Which imported blue pigment did Hokusai use in The Great Wave?
Prussian blue was a synthetic European pigment that reached Japan through trade, adding a new blue to Hokusai's palette.
Which printmaking method carves an image into a wood block surface?
Woodcut is a relief process where non-image areas are carved away, ink is rolled onto the raised surface, and paper is pressed to transfer the image.