Why do you think it took four different people to create a Japanese woodcut? Why didn’t one person do all the work like most artists of today?

First of all, the workload. After carving small, tiny details into a woodcut for days, it would certainly do a load on your eyes and your consciousness. One cannot stay focused for so long, thus they have to take breaks, making the production speed slower. Multiple people can switch off to create the wood in order to accelerate the speed of the woodcut. It would most likely look better as well, since they don’t have to spend as much time on it independently. Most people would get tired after eating the same thing everyday, this also happens when people draw the same thing for days, they too would get bored of it. Overall, multiple people would increase the speed of production, have less strains on the artists, and would make the woodcut look better.

Also, the journals are kinda biased. It doesn’t matter how detailed I get with these explanations, I’ll still get a 0. Don’t worry about these too much, they hardly matter (since they’re computer graded).