Suruga-cho Framed Original Print by Utagawa Hiroshige

Suruga-cho Framed Original Print by Utagawa Hiroshige

Suruga-cho, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei) #8 in Series
Woodblock print, signed Hiroshige ga, published by Uoya Eikichi, 1856
Framed 20"x13.75", Print 13.5" x 9"

Woodblock printing is a relief print technique in which images, designs, or words are carved in reverse onto a block of wood using wood carving tools. The image is then inked and printed onto paper, cloth, or other materials.
As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD. Woodblock printing existed in Tang China by the 7th century AD and remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century.