Most significant among them were the ukiyo-e form of wood-block print and the kabuki and bunraku theaters.

Materials will be provided for making a wood-block print, a monoprint and a rubbing.

For each title, library and collection holdings are listed, with attention to the edition, including reprints, modern editions, wood-block prints, and so on.

The wood-block prints are supplemented by hand-colored photographs that show the same commercial activity around 1900.

Some wood-block prints from the period show three clerks, each using a different one of the methods, checking each other's results.

Famous was the store where wood-block prints were made for Sugoroku, a popular Japanese board game.

The installation essentially ends with 18th- and 19th-century scrolls and wood-block prints.

The center's gallery has an exhibition of folk art made by women from China, including paper cutouts, wood-block prints and folk paintings.

Early in the 20th century, the exhibition's wall text says, "the postcard replaced the wood-block print as the primary graphic art form in Japan."

Slides of wood-block prints and Impressionist paintings will be projected to illustrate the performance.