A walking tour of the Kiso Valley offers glimpses of the golden age of Japan’s great printmakers ... Sipping my cold brew, I studied the woodblock version of the town. Nothing I could see ...

A man wearing a headband and round “milk bottle” spectacles hummed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 as he carved a woodblock at ... the first character meaning “printing block” for one meaning ...

The tradition of copying evolved in Kyoto over centuries through woodblock prints and reproductions ... The collotype printing technique faithfully reproduces Kyoto's famed works of art.