Watched an interesting (if too-long) documentary on young Utah artist Jed Henry's collaboration with Tokyo printmaker David Bull (yes, he's English) to make old-style prints with present-day subjects.  Here's the sales website.  The documentary said there were only about 10 traditional printmakers (who cut the multiple wood blocks for the prints and use the traditional methods) left in Japan.  With success of the early prints, it looks like Jed Henry is now collaborating with two younger printmakers.    

As a Japanese expert pointed out in the documentary, when Japan went modern after about 1850, the paper prints that had been popular went out of favor and whole bundles were sold abroad.  Foreign collectors and museums did great work in saving some of this heritage.  Much of what had been in Tokyo burned either in the 1923 earthquake or the 1945 bombings.  I once visited the big Edo-Tokyo museum when they were holding a print exhibit from the Boston art museum.  It was a big deal.