Illustration: At a community art workshop in Japan, a participant carefully peels a sheet of paper from an inked woodblock. The exposed paper shows a carp among rippling water, matching the carved forms clearly visible on the block below.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

版はん画が

hanga

art print, woodblock print

Example sentences

  1. 版画はんがのほか、肉筆画にくひつがにも傑出けっしゅつしていた。

    He was outstanding not only in terms of his woodcuts but also in his original drawings.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 版画はんがでは、多彩たさいな色彩しきさいを表現ひょうげんできる技術ぎじゅつが向上こうじょうした。

    In woodblock prints, various colors came to be represented due to the improvement of the technologies.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. ゴッホはこの時ときすでにアントウェルペンで浮世絵うきよえ版画はんがを収集しゅうしゅうしていた。

    Gogh had already collected Japanese woodblock prints in Antwerp.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 版画

  • 版printing block; printing plateOnハン
  • 画picture; strokeOnガ・カク・エKunえがく・かくする・かぎる

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