Printer's knife
Printer's knife
- Description
- Small slant-point graver-type knife set in black wooden handle used in Japanese woodblock cutting. Embosssed with maker's chop. See illustrations GA*03209.03-.04. See Item No. 3 in watercolor showing the woodblock cutter's tools which is represented by GA.03210.03, the handle only. As of 2017, we believe that GA.03211.12 is a replacement knife acquired for exhibition purposes when the original knife lost its blade.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Measurements
- overall: 13 cm; 5 1/8 in
- ID Number
- GA.03211.12
- accession number
- 22582
- catalog number
- 03211.12
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Communications
- Art
- Tokuno Gift
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
