SHADING ON THE SAIL: The blue highlight on the "A" print was simply omitted in later copies. A minor recutting of the original blue block removing the blue line would be a simple quick procedure. However, once done, without cutting new blocks, it could not be reprinted on later prints. The yellow color is simply a matter of altering (or making new) the yellow block
already devised for the tinting of leaves, etc.
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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