Part of the documentation received with the collection included a report on Japanese wood-block cutting and printing prepared by Tokuno and Shotaro Tsukiyama, his associate in the Printing Bureau.

Columnist Suzy Leonard's first stab at block printing was a lesson in the perfection to be found in imperfections.

Our connected world makes it simple to send documents around the world in the blink of an eye, but heaven have mercy if you ever need to print one of them. Printers are perhaps even more frustrating ...