Embossing Prints (24)
Embossing (karazuri) technique in Japanese woodblock prints, where uninked blocks are pressed into dampened paper to create raised, three-dimensional textures. Used to render snow, feathers, wave crests, and fabric patterns, embossing adds tactile richness to printed images.
Artists Known for Embossing
Demon in Disguise as an Old Woman Fleeing with a Severed Arm (Rōba kiwan o mochisaru zu), from the series New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts (Shinkei sanjūroku kaisen)
1889
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color and gauffrage on paper
Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Musashibō Benkei in The Subscription List (Kanjinchō)
Meiji period, datable to 1890
Center panel from a woodblock print (nishiki-e) triptych; ink, color, gauffrage, and metallic pigment on paper
Taira no Kiyomori Holding Back the Sun, from the series Mirror of Famous Generals of Japan (Dai Nippon meishō kagami)
Meiji period, circa 1878-1882
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink, color and gauffrage ("blind" printing) on paper
Sleeping Cat
19th century
Woodblock print (nishiki-e), ink and color on paper with embossing and sunago
63 - B
1963
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
65 - 7
1965
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Cell - 4
1966
Woodblock print, color on embossed paper
Figure - 3
1968
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Flower Song - 2
early 1960s
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Flower Song - 8
1968 or 1970
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
May - 2
early 1960s
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Poem - 11
1971
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Poem - 12
1966
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Poem 70 - 28 (Word)
1970
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Poem 72 - 51 (Cooling Fan)
1972
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Title unknown
1970s
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Work 74-57 (Sun-B)
c. 1974
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Work - Mu-2
1961
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Twilight
April 1928
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper with mica and embossing
Actor Onoe Matsusuke IV as Gorōji in Kagatobi
1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper with nikawa and embossing
![[abstract composition with diagonal woodgrain] by Gen Yamaguchi](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135949.jpg)
[abstract composition with diagonal woodgrain]
20th century
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper
Hill in Early Spring
1948
Woodblock print, ink on paper with embossing
![Title unknown [Town with tile-roofed buildings] by Kihei Sasajima](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/135544.jpg)
Title unknown [Town with tile-roofed buildings]
1968
Woodblock print, ink on paper with embossing
Bendbo
1963
Woodblock print, ink and color on embossed paper