Wood-engraving block: "I pass like night, from land to land, I have strange power of speech" (plate 18)

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

Bone

Ink on carved wood

Wooden handled-brush with animal hair bristles

Horsehair bristles secured with bark and cord to a Japanese cypress handle