"Snail and Mount Fuji" by Yoshiko Yamamoto is a limited edition letterpress print, sketched, carved, and printed by the artist in a limited edition of 250 signed and numbered prints. Each color represents an impression from a hand-carved linoleum block. 
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Inspired by a senryu poem by Kobayashi Issa, "Fearless little snail / Slowly, slowly you can climb / Great Fuji mountain." 
Framed with acid-free matting and backing, UV filtering acrylic, 3/4" Ebonized Walnut hardwood frame, and hanging hardware. Mat dimensions: 11x19". Outside dimensions with frame are approximately 12.5x20.5".
Yoshiko Yamamoto is a premier block printer who has merged the craft of Japan's Edo period with the philosophy and aesthetics of post-industrial England's Arts and Crafts movement. Yamamoto's block prints are letterpress printed using hand-cut blocks on acid-free paper.
Letterpress printing is a relief print process. A raised surface produces the printed image (originally lead movable type) being inked and then impressed onto a sheet of paper. These raised surfaces have historically been anything from woodcuts to wood engravings, from linocuts to typefaces. Over the past several years, a new type of plate made from photopolymer has contributed to the revival of letterpress printing. Yoshiko Yamamoto uses all of these methods, from wood and linoleum block to photopolymer plates.