DOTS ON SHORE: Looks like the green color block was a victim of wear and
tear. Until print "D", however, the variation in intensity of the dots
appears to be more the amount of ink and the intensity of baren
pressure - or more simply how the printer felt as he did the printing. At print "D"
the block is clearly worn with thicker lines and clusters of
dots bunching or missing altogether. The firm short diagonal line breaking the
shoreline at the left of the sail is weaker in "B" but stronger in "C"
(printer baren pressure) and again weaker in "D" (due to wear of the block). The dots are
beginning to run together on "C" and have run together on "D".
Contributed by ukiyo-e scholar Philip H. Roach, Jr., moonlighting/slumming here for the noble but doomed purpose of helping our members combat the Attention Deficit from which we Shin Hanga lightweights apparently suffer.
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