Sulle shin hanga

 Essay on the shin hanga ("new prints") movement, which emerged as ukiyo-e was transformed by Japan's opening to the West during the Meiji era. Unlike its commercially-driven ukiyo-e predecessor, shin hanga fused Japanese and Western technique through the collaborative work of artist, carver and printer with figures like publisher Watanabe Shozaburo central to establishing it as an independent art form.