David Bull (born 19:30pm 11 November 1951) is a Canadian ''

ukiyo-e Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surfac ...

'' woodblock printer and carver who heads the Mokuhankan studio in

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, Tokyo. Born in Britain, Bull moved to Canada at the age of 5. He first discovered Japanese woodblocks while working in a music shop in 1980 in Toronto, at 28, and started making his own prints without formal training. Bull moved to Tokyo in 1986 to learn more about traditional Japanese woodblock printing. In 1989 he embarked on an ambititous ten-year project, recreating 100 images from

Katsukawa Shunsho Katsukawa may refer to: *Katsukawa school, school of Japanese ukiyo-e art, founded by Miyagawa Shunsui *Katsukawa Shunchō, designer of ukiyo-e style Japanese woodblock prints, active from c. 1783 to c. 1795 *Katsukawa Shunkō I (1743–1812), desi ...

's 1775 '' Hyakunin isshu'' poetry book. He is known for his work on the ''Ukiyo-e Heroes''

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project together with Jed Henry, recreating modern videogame scenes in ''ukiyo-e'' style with traditional woodblock techniques. The Mokuhankan studio has a shop and used to offer “print parties” for amateurs, where they could try the craft of printing. During the pandemic his shop temporarily shut down for 3 years, but is now back open without print parties

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