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Woodblock printing existed in Tang China by the 7th century AD and remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. Ukiyo-e is the best-known type of Japanese woodblock art print.
A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty The Great Dharani Sutra, one of the world's oldest surviving woodblock prints, c. 704-751 The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang-dynasty China, 868 AD (British Museum), the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of printing Colophon to the Diamond Sutra dating the year of printing to 868
A fragment of a dharani print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty Replica of The Great Dharani Sutra, the oldest printed text in Korea, c. 704-751 The HyakumantÅ Darani, the oldest printed text in Japan, c. 770 The frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China, the earliest extant printed text bearing a date of ...
Woodblock printing: The earliest specimen of woodblock printing is a single-sheet dharani sutra in Sanskrit that was printed on hemp paper between 650 and 670 AD; it was unearthed in 1974 from a Tang tomb near Xi'an. [14]
The Chinese invention of woodblock printing, at some point before the first dated book in 868 (the Diamond Sutra), produced the world's first print culture. According to A. Hyatt Mayor , curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , "it was the Chinese who really invented the means of communication that was to dominate until our age."
A Chinese printed playing card dated c. 1400 AD, Ming dynasty, found near Turpan, measuring 9.5 by 3.5 cm.. Playing cards may have been invented during the Tang dynasty around the ninth century AD as a result of the usage of woodblock printing technology.
From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008 is a 2010 collection of essays edited by Cynthia Brokaw and Cristopher Reed. The anthology details the history of Chinese publishing, printing, and print culture from the High Qing to the modern People's Republic.
Insects and pests can destroy woodblock prints by eating through the paper or leaving droppings that stain the paper. A common cause of holes in Japanese woodblock prints is the deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum). These beetles were commonly found in wood used to build furniture in the Edo period. Woodblock prints that were stored on ...
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