Hidehiko Goto: Baren Making, Care and Printing Demonstration

Hidehiko Goto demonstrates how to make, care for and print with the baren, the printing tool for mokuhanga.

Hidehiko Goto was born in Kokura, Fukukoka prefecture (1953). After college (wood sculpture course), he studied printing and the baren under Kikuo Gosho, a printmaker, and Matashiro Uchikawa, an ukiyo-e printer. In 1979, he established the baren studio KIKUHIDE. He has been engaged in the planning and development of tools related to the baren as well as in providing direction on the baren for universities, museums and mokuhanga courses.

In 2012, he started BAREN-JUKU, a baren class in Ginza, while also making mokuhanga as an artist.

Since 2011, the International Mokuhanga Conference has been held every three years (Kyoto, Tokyo and Honolulu/Holualoa) at venues where the possibilities of traditional Japanese woodblock techniques can be explored among artists and adapted to new modes of representation. The 2017 conference was held at the East-West Center and University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa Art Building before moving over the Big Island of Hawaiʻi where the Donkey Mill Art Center provided space in Holualoa.

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