Carving the Picture Book of Everything with David Bull

In 2022, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation awarded a Small Grant to the British Museum to support travel to Tokyo by Dr Capucine Korenberg, a senior scientist based at the Scientific Research Department at The British Museum.

She travelled to Tokyo to interview and film woodblock printmakers, David Bull and Motoharu Asaka, as they embarked on the ambitious and challenging project of creating 12 prints of the 103 newly re-discovered Hokusai drawings acquired by the Museum, leading to a film for the Museum’s YouTube channel, March 2023.

You can see the film below: