Ukiyo-e prints
Edo-period Japanese woodblock printing, its workshop traditions, and their contemporary descendants.
Elected by the community.
Stewards curate the circle's priorities, verify provenance, and govern disputes. Stewardship is earned through contribution signal and ratified on the Tenzro ledger.
The Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stewarding one of the most comprehensive holdings of Japanese woodblock prints outside of Japan.
Contemporary hanga (woodblock) printer and fourth-generation atelier keeper. Working between traditional reproduction technique and contemporary composition.
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Contributions in this circle
Wave grammar — generative study set
A set of 24 AI-generated compositional variations on the Great Wave, produced as a study aid and explicitly marked generative. Source model and seed documented.
After Hokusai — hanga study in natural indigo
A contemporary hand-carved and hand-printed woodblock response to the Great Wave, printed on kōzo paper with natural indigo rather than Prussian blue.
Debussy, La Mer, and the Great Wave
A short essay tracing the well-documented influence of Hokusai's wave on Claude Debussy's 1905 orchestral work La Mer. The 1905 Durand edition score cover reproduced the print at the composer's request.
Prussian blue stratigraphy across the Thirty-Six Views
Cross-impression XRF mapping of the Prussian blue pigment used in the series. AI-assisted layer separation against a corpus of public-collection impressions.
Conservation report — Met impression JP1847
2023–2024 conservation assessment covering sheet flattening, foxing remediation, and recto-verso multispectral capture of the Met impression.
Under the Wave off Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai · from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji · c. 1831
Polychrome woodblock print (nishiki-e) from Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. Three oshiokuri-bune boats struggle against a cresting wave while Mount Fuji appears small at the horizon. This layer references the impression held at The Met (accession JP1847).