TOEFL Read an Academic Passage Practice #053 - Printmakers and the Changing Status of Japanese Woodblock Prints

What you will practice

• Reading comprehension
• Evidence and inference
• Time management

Topic: Arts & Literature · Read an Academic Passage

Passage preview

Japanese woodblock prints of the Edo period were long treated as inexpensive images for urban consumers rather than as unique works of art. Publishers commissioned designs, hired specialized carvers to cut separate blocks for each color, and used printers to…