Japanese Woodblock Painting: Process & Final Result

From this

to this

I had to go through 8 stages:

Japanese Woodblock Printing

The Great Wave of Kanagawa - an iconic woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai
source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa.jpg/800px-Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa.jpg

Recently, I took up a Japanese Woodblock Printing course organised by the Oxford Summer School (website). The summer school offers many art courses taught by local artists and craftsmen, and they are surprisingly popular as most of the classes are full by early summer. I only managed to get into the Japanese Woodblock Printing course after a few weeks on the waiting list.