The Great Wave - Part 1
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- This set of videos will document the production of the new reproduction of Hokusai's 'The Great Wave' being made by Dave Bull and his Mokuhankan woodblock print workshop in Tokyo, in early 2015.
The print is being made as a 'reward' for backers of the Kickstarter project run in the autumn of 2014 by Mokuhankan to gather support for their new shop in Asakusa, Tokyo.
The print will be carved by Dave, proofed by him once the blocks are ready, and then produced by his printing staff.
This man is great, he got me started in woodblock carving / printing. I love it.
Hey man, just wondering if you have posted your work anywhere?
Mister Bull! I hope everything is working out for you and your new shop. You are as cool as always.
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After finishing this series, I had to come back to the beginning to say I think this series might be the greatest example of the power of TH-cam & the internet I've ever witnessed. The difference in how I felt while looking at this reproduction of the Great Wave before and after watching these videos is as immense as the amount of work and passion that went into creating it. I could write paragraphs about everything this series made me feel...but I think I'll make my own YT video about it instead. Many thanks for allowing us to go on the journey.
Hi David, I have just discovered your series of videos and I am driving my wife mad by watching them frequently. I am just seeing your story unfold and I must say I am fascinated. I cheated and jumped to your most recent video, like reading ahead in book! Thank you so much for your dedication and generosity. I discovered your work as I am tentatively taking my first steps in to the world of Ukiyo-e, I can do this armed with the wonderful library of wisdom that you have created and curate for us all.
And you still got it done like a true craftsman. #NotJustAHobby
I've stumbled across this gentleman by accident on TH-cam. I've got to say he has a knack for story telling. He needs a t.v. series.
I think its refreshing to see someone with so much passion in their work.
I am a young mathematics undergraduate from Stanford, and I often watch your videos in times of great stress with projects/exams!
Here I am, rewatching this series for the 8th time because I miss David's content
Sensoji Temple is one of the first places I've been to in Japan last year in March, right after the Skytree. Crazy to think that I may have walked by your shop, before even knowing about it!
Thank you for your passion, and your willingness to share your knowledge and enthusiasm with your viewers. I'm absolutely awe-struck. Also, great sweater!
Dave -- thank you for sharing the video of the first steps in producing the carving, and an extra thank you for taking the time to show us the area around the shop! あけましておめでとう!
Love how you go out sometimes and show us japan so pretty love your content
That Temple is stunning at night. I just found your videos linked from a Bob Ross video and I'm hooked. I don't know that I'll take up woodcarving but hopefully I'll have a greater appreciation for the art once I finish watching it all.
massive just massive respect
David
I really like listening to Mr. Bull, takes me back to my art history classes, he's like those professors who are really passionate about their subject
When you've mentioned illumination on Senso-ji, I checked who has done it, and obviously, Motoko Ishii, one of the greatest (and one of the first in Japan) lighting designers, such an interesting woman, I ones saw a documentary about her on NHK World, she also has done/is doing (cause she often changes her works) Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo Station, Himeji Castle and many others. :) OK, enough of this, now back to watching your amazing work.
I highly doubt you'd see this after 4 years, but any chance you could link me to that documentary? It sounds fascinating.
Wonderful description of the artistic process, but the 'step out of the workshop' underlines the culture that you are working within, which adds a really informative context. You have really grabbed my attention. Thank you for such a thoughtful approach.
It's always very interesting to follow the process of the prints, but it was also really nice to get a short tour of the area
I started watching your latest video on 'The Wave' and decided to start at the beginning. I forgot that you brought us outside. Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Great work!
You should know I found you entirely randomly via suggestion by the TH-cam Algorithm, and that same night I watched 3 whole videos of yours with my wife because your content was so relaxing. It was the perfect thing for us after a stressful week, and I wanted you to know that. Thankyou for being you.
Love this. Big fan of all your videos. Thank you and keep 'em coming!
Thanks for the nice tour!
Love it. Showing the finer points of recreating such a famous print was really cool. Enjoyed the visit to Tokyo!
Second time re-watching this series, great detailed and intresting, look into life and you life. Thank you.
You're a really cool guy, and you have a very soothing voice. Incredibly interesting and in-depth explanations too. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the tour david!
I can't wait to see the finished product! All the best to you and the rest of the Mokuhankan crew for the new year. あけましておめでとうございます :-)
Thanks for showing us some of asakusa! I always love your personal touches to these videos. Akemashiteomedetou ;)
Love these videos! Not only do I enjoy learning about your work and process of making but also the interesting culture :)
This was really great!
The second half, being taken around the area, was really good too!
Fantastic series David thank you from England ❤️
I got shown by you by my art teacher and I found it amazing how dedicated you are with this project
David, if you could, do more of outdoors would be AWESOME.
absolutly love this content
Dave, you might benefit from an apple pencil and an iPad or a Logitech (cheaper than apple) pencil and a newer tablet, now those pens and newer tablets let you capture the brush strokes better by deepening the line when you press more on the pencil. Just wanted to put it out there if you see if it could speed up your line work process. Thank you for your videos, I'm excited for updates!
The video you are seeing here is a few years old; I've used an iPad Pro and matching pencil for all similar work since then ... But thanks for the suggestion!
Imagine my happiness after checking emails this morning and finding a message from Mokuhankan informing me that another batch of prints for The Great Wave have been made and I had a chance to order one for myself! I immediately made the payment and will now eagerly await the print to arrive. I just need to figure the best place where it will be framed and displayed.
Thank you sir for this video. It's educational, informative and insightful.
Here because ep 17 just dropped
great video!!!! Im loving it! You seem such a nice person!
Oh I love that we got to see the outside of the street!! I’d love to have a video tour of the area and the shop?? :)
This is one of my favourite pictures
respect, Mister Bull!
Excellent jumper.
I've been to sensouji once before, but now I have to go back at night!
I got a copy of this and as working in the same business like you, i am very happy about this. the framing costs me 300 Dollars (with Schott MiroGuard) but for me it is worth...
I'm an American. No not a Trump at all so dont throw rotten fruit. Anyways idk if I can say this man is a national treasure since he doesn't live in the US and hasn't for a long time but the man is a Treasure to humanity in general.
i love you David Bull.
Love! Love! Love!
Couldn’t you have used a density mask in Photoshop to create the tracing? Sort of like auto trace.
To think he uploaded another video about this just 3 weeks ago
Interesting. Wouldn't the Hokusai museum have better reproductions? Do they not have any originals you could have worked from?
Didn't the grandson of Bigelow (the collector of Japanese art) allow the original woodblocks to be studied and copied back in the 1980s? Maybe the Wave wasn't part of that collection😔 or..quite possibly, I'm not remembering correctly.
I think what you are (partially) remembering is the episode during the 1980s when the Boston Museum of Fine Art discovered a number of the original blocks for some Hokusai illustrated books (collected originally by Bigelow). These were sent back to Japan (temporarily) where they were re-printed by the Adachi company. We have those re-printed books in our Collection, and will be getting them uploaded at some point ... The Great Wave wasn't involved in any of this.
@@seseragistudio ah...I see. Thank you very kindly for your reply, I couldn't remember myself. Looking forward to seeing these.
David Bull, you're a 'mine' of information! Many thanks for video, keep up The Great Work. 👍🏻
Hi David, thank you for another interesting and informative video. I have a question about the Smithsonian's copy of Hokusai's Great Wave. You mention that the linework is very good, which suggests that the keyblock could be Hokusai's original - or if not, it was carved by someone "who knew what he was doing" (like you said earlier in the video there will always be debate over the so-called "authenticity" of a print). But does the fact that there's a mis-registration mean that the printer made a mistake or was inexperienced or was possibly not using the original color blocks? How big of a deal is the mis-registration? Or phrased in a different way, if a print that you were making had the same degree of mis-registration as the Smithsonian copy, would you discard it?
My guess as to why that particular copy is mis-registered is that simply it was printed from a set of blocks that was already showing its age - there is no way that all the wood in any particular set will shrink and expand at the same rate, so if you just keep printing from them, at some point it starts to get very difficult to keep things lined up. The publisher at that time 'made the call' on each sheet - junk it or send it out. We are trying to hold ourselves to a fairly high standard (otherwise there would be no point in doing this), so we would have junked that one, but I can't really fault him for sending it out, as he presumably knew his own market ...
Awesome
Never noticed the boats before.
Is that a Sony camera you are using?
The main video itself was taken with a Canon EOS 650D, but for closeups of the bench, I use HD Handycams. I replace those every couple of years, picking up a used model that is itself a couple of years old, not paying much attention to the brand name ...
@@seseragistudio I was meaning the walkabout video at the end. I had Sony that gave a cool blue colour. I also pick up used cameras, I get them from studios where they have taken many hours of film but they have been looked after.
Just step one is so time consuming.
What is it with Japanese people wearing face masks all about the place? I have even seen them in London wearing them.
They most likely have a cold/the flu. From what I understand it's considered extremely rude to not wear a mask if you're carrying some type of contagious bug. Kind of like sneezing and wiping your nose on your sleeve.
I'm here in 2021, and Skater's comment did not age well.
@@marujaoswald It feels like a precious relic of the past, from before the controversy of mask mandates. I remember thinking what a great thing it was that there were whole populations of people who considered wearing a mask in public the obvious choice and hoping more people would adopt it. I was a very optimistic American for about 1 week after Covid got serious. Now I'm optimistic in other ways.
Google brill. Great guy. Follow his making of his great wave repro in 8 ? sessions
I feel like the white on the modern one was too bright, A hint of yellow and darker and it would look better.
Really nice temple shots by the way