black-ink woodblock printing; black-ink woodblock print
Refers to both the technique and the resulting print. In ukiyo-e, it denotes prints made with sumi ink only, before color was added. Often contrasted with 色摺り (color printing).
This ukiyo-e is very beautiful even at the black-ink printing stage.
Early ukiyo-e were mainly black-ink prints.
General term for woodblock prints; 墨摺り specifies the black-ink-only variety.
Standard kanji spelling for this term.
Variant spelling using 刷 (print) instead of 摺 (rub/print).
Compound of 墨 (sumi, 'black ink') and 摺り (suri, 'printing' or 'rubbing'), from the verb 摺る (suru, 'to print by rubbing').