Learn Printmaking in Tokyo / Mt. Fuji (Kawaguchiko)

Honest level: Beginner -> Advanced — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Basic Training Program (BPA / BPB / BPC)

A residential mokuhanga (Japanese water-based woodblock) artist-in-residence run by MI-LAB. Over five weeks, a small international group works full-time in a shared studio learning the full mokuhanga process: carving cherry/shina blocks, hand-printing with baren, registration (kento), pigment and paste (nori) mixing, and editioning, with side workshops in the famous Echizen washi papermaking region. Aimed at practicing artists, printmakers and art teachers who want to deepen woodblock skills at the source.

Next sessions: 2026-04-12 · 2026-09-06 · 2026-10-18

A multi-week, residential, small-group immersion in authentic Japanese mokuhanga taught by master printers — the deepest woodblock program of its kind.

Schools in Tokyo / Mt. Fuji (Kawaguchiko)

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) Artist-in-Residence
  Basic Training Program (BPA / BPB / BPC)
  A residential mokuhanga (Japanese water-based woodblock) artist-in-residence run by MI-LAB.
  https://endeavor.or.jp/mi-lab/air/open-call-for-2026/
• MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory)
  Mokuhanga Artist-in-Residence Program
  MI-LAB is a water-based woodblock (mokuhanga) artist-in-residence program at a residential studio beside Lake Kawaguchi at the foot of Mt. Fuji, running multi-week residencies that teach traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking from introductory to advanced level.
  https://endeavor.or.jp/mi-lab/aboutus/
• The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints
  Adachi Foundation woodblock-printing artisan training program
  The Adachi Institute, founded in 1928 in Tokyo, reproduces ukiyo-e using traditional carving and printing techniques and, through its Adachi Foundation, runs a training program for aspiring woodcut-print artisans alongside periodic public demonstrations and workshops.
  https://www.adachi-hanga.com/en/
• Mokuhankan (Asakusa)
  Woodblock Print Party (hands-on printing workshop)
  Mokuhankan is woodblock printmaker David Bull's Asakusa workshop and shop in Tokyo, offering hands-on Print Party sessions where visitors ink pre-carved blocks and pull their own prints with a baren.
  https://mokuhankan.com/

The credential

Tamarind Master Printer certificate (lithography) / atelier apprenticeship · Certifying body: Tamarind master-printer certification / atelier apprenticeship

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Printmaking

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.