ere, you can see the edge of GANPI, very thin traditional Japanese paper, as different value of yellowish color.

I used the sheet size of GANPI as same as image size, 265mmx525mm for earlier prints.

But, later I use the bigger sheet size of GANPI covering whole sheet. For it was difficult to handling GANPI.

It needs much more careful working for longer rectangular shape to put ,spread and get rid of wrinkles of GANPI on the copper plate. A long rectangular shape sheet is much more easily wrinkled than a regular square.

I needed, perhaps 30 or 40 hours to engrave only the characters on the margin. These work is often monotonous, but very good work to recognize the skill of engraving. For later two engravings, I engraved the same characters again.
you can see slightly the plate mark on the lower part of the detail.

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