Between Heaven & Earth - The Lost Ink Project

Lost Ink, a subsidiary of Between Heaven and Earth LLC, is an online gallery of 18th, 19th and 20th century Japanese woodblock prints. The Gallery was created out of a fascination for these remarkable works of art.

The traditional Japanese art of woodblock printing as practiced in the 18th and 19th century was a very complex, elaborate and collaborative project between artist, publisher, woodblock carver and printer… an art form that today is practiced by very few and none that in our opinion rival the detail and intricacies found in the prints from the 1800’s. Hence the name Lost Ink.

The Lost Ink gallery makes every effort to accurately describe the condition and quality of each print and as part of that process the web site provides high resolution scans of the front and reverse of each print. The site allows you to view enlarged images of each print as well. A 21 inch monitor or larger is recommended for optimum web site viewing. In addition the Lost Ink Gallery always provides as much information about the subject matter of the print as possible.

This web gallery opened online in December 2009 and currently offers a very small selection of the prints we have in inventory. We intend to add a significant number of prints over the next several months. When new prints are added they will be listed on the “New Acquisitions” page as well as the category page to which they belong. New prints will remain in the New Acquisitions category for approximately one month. Through out the first quarter of 2010 this web site will very much be a work in progress with many things being added over the course of that time. Besides adding new prints we will be adding more detail about the prints that are already on the site, biographical sketches about the artist, the history and process of woodblock printing and information about the care and preservation of woodblock prints. Some of this will be presented within this gallery and some will be presented in the form of links to other web sites. It is our belief that the more one knows about a particular print, the artist and the process behind its creation the more one can appreciate the work of art.

We hope you enjoy visiting the gallery.

www.lost-ink.com