An is a Japanese woodblock print that mimics a stone rubbing. It has uninked images or text on a dark, usually black, background.
An ishizuri-e is a Japanese woodblock print that mimics a stone rubbing. It has uninked images or text on a dark, usually black, background. Okumura Masanobu was among the earliest artists to experiment with the technique, in which lines appear reversed, white against a roughened black background, so as to imitate the effect of rubbings taken from Chinese stone inscriptions.
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Further readings Lane, Richard, Images from the Floating World, The Japanese Print, New York, Dorset Press, 1978, p. 279 Newland, Amy Reigle, Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints, Amsterdam, Hotei, 2005, p. 447,