Toppan - Toppan

Japanese: 凸版 - とっぱん

〘 noun 〙 (also "totsuban") A printing method in which the surface of the printing plate is carved out to make it lower, leaving the image lines to be printed, and then ink is placed on the remaining raised areas and printed. Woodblock, linoleum, letterpress, etc. The opposite of intaglio. ※Fuzoku Gaho - No. 345 (1906) Ichigaya Kagacho 1-chome "Shueisha First Factory (abbreviation) Photography department and plate making, fine screen printing, letterpress, intaglio , woodblock, lead printing, etc., numbering approximately 800 workers"

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Japanese:

〘名〙 (「とつばん」とも) 印刷する画線部を残して版材の表面を彫って低くし、残された凸部にインクをのせて刷(す)る印刷法。木版・リノリウム版・活版など。凹版の逆。※風俗画報‐三四五号（1906）市谷加賀町一丁目「秀英社第一工場〈略〉写真部及製版、細網版、凸版(トツバン)、凹版(あうばん)、木版、鉛版(えんばん)等にして、職工の数凡(およそ)八百名」

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