Sōsaku-hanga

Sōsaku-hanga ("creative prints") was a radical early 20th-century art movement that discarded traditional workshops to establish the artist as the sole creator of a woodblock print. The style was governed by three strict principles: self-drawn (jiga), self-carved (jikoku), and self-printed (jizuri). Because a single individual handled every step, the resulting aesthetic was heavily individualized, raw, and spontaneous rather than commercially polished.