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Leaving a type culture - Nakamura type -

I visited Mr. Nakamura type in Ginza on an exciting tour in October. It is a long-established printing company founded in 1910 (Meiji 43). Mr. Akihisa Nakamura, the fifth president, talked and touched on rare machines and prints.

What is Live Printing?

Printing is to preserve the culture of print - Nakamura Printing -

It was invented in the 15th century by Gutenberg from Germany, and the Bible was printed and widely spread. The process of picking up prints, assembling, printing, and publishing the printed version requires the skills of a professional craftsman. In Japan, it has evolved from woodblock printing, which is printed with letters and pictures on a single board, to print printing in which letters engraved one by one are printed in prints with independent prints.

The characters in Ginza in the photo of the card I experienced are made up of a combination of small silver characters and a lot of small seats characters.

Printing, which is sometimes called the printing revolution, once books were supplied in large quantities, expensive books became available to the common people, and knowledge accumulated and exchanged progressed.

 Leaving a type culture - Nakamura type -
 Leaving a type culture - Nakamura type -

There are many types in the case of sliding doors. The shelf is diagonally designed to make it easier to choose so that the print does not fall.

The Future of Printing

Due to the dense concentration of newspaper companies and advertising companies, print printing, which can be mass-produced, has become a local industry in Ginza. All newspapers before and after the war were printed. At its peak, there were 200 printing houses, but in the 1970s, computers were also used in the printing industry. Printing, which takes time and effort, has disappeared, and now the printing house is now a single Nakamura print house.

When you pick up the printed matter, there is a slight unevenness in the print part, and the warmth of handmade is transmitted. Recently, it seems that requests are increasing in the art world, such as those who make business cards in search of it and posters.

Thank you for your valuable experience, Mr. Nakamura, who is struggling to protect the type culture in Chuo-ku, where the cutting-edge and old things live naturally. I feel like a new flow will be born again from here.

 

 Leaving a type culture - Nakamura type -

 

Nakamura Printing Co., Ltd.

2-13-7, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

03-3541-6563