Double-sided wood printing block from Book on the Process of Woodblock Printing (Hanga shūsatsu junjo chō), with a design of Compared Poems of the Four Seasons (Shiki no kuawase)

Carved cherry wood

Opaque and semi-opaque watercolor and shell-gold flakes on prepared pasteboard under shellac varnish

Chūban (medium-sized) minogami (mulberry bark paper) treated with persimmon juice and cut using the "dōgubori" (punch-carving) and "tsukibori" (thrust-carving) techniques, with "ito-ire" (silk-web) reinforcement

Carved wood

Ink on carved wood

Ink and color on carved wood

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard