Object Details
- Description
- Wooden mallet used to drive chisel into wood block to cut design for Japanese printmaking. One of a group of woodblock-cutter's tools used in Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques from about 1890 to 1990s. Identified as No. 24 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
- Measurements
- overall: 28.5 cm x 12 cm x 4.5 cm; 11 7/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 1 25/32 in
- Object Name
- mallet
