Numazu Ki Kure Framed Original Print by Utagawa Hiroshige

Numazu Ki Kure Framed Original Print by Utagawa Hiroshige

Numazu Ki Kure, from the series "53 Stations of the Tokaido" Series - 12th Station
Woodblock print, signed Hiroshige ga, 1834
Framed 20"x13.75", Print 14.25" x 9.25"

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.