Hyakunen no Hana series (Flowers of a Hundred Years)
Woodblock, 2017.
Print size: day oban tate-e - 47 x 33 cm / 18.5 x 13 inches.
Image size: 17.5 x 11.5 in.
Details, highlighted in bronze, 23 carat gold leaf, and silver and white mica metallic pigments. Series title and print title in karazuri (’blind-printing’) on the upper left margin; signed in kan-ji, Bin-ni lower left followed by red artist’s seal Binnie, and numbered and signed in pencil on the bottom margin. There were 53 printings, including a new technique in the shaded background; i.e. a special block was cut for the upper area and splattered with oil varnish, which when dry, resisted the water-based ink in an irregular way. Each impression is therefore different in this regard, some showing the resist strongly, others showing the shading more.
