Setting the FIRST Image onto a Woodblock .. part 1

There are  several methods to place the image to be carved onto the woodblock.

I’m looking at a method of placing a FIRST / KEY-Block image onto the block. Specifically I want a viable alternate to using Japanese Gampi Paper.  The image placed onto the block is a MIRROR image of the finished Print.

I plan to use software to simply flip an image and print out a copy, paste that onto a block and carve.  I’ve selected a very popular and uncomplicated image to reproduce:

Female Nude Seated in Water 水に裸女 Japanese Late Meiji era 1906
Ichijô Narumi (Japanese, 1877–1910), Publisher Japanese Postcard Club

This example shows; with and without Stamp-Franking

Here we see the image and a Mirror image suitable to place onto a woodblock