Shin-hanga is a Japanese art movement pioneered by Shōzaburō Watanabe in the early 20th century. The movement was developed off the back of the ukiyo-e tradition but used contemporary western artistic practices such as perspectives and shadows. They are a much more complicated production using layering to create  deep and intricate  colours in the final print along side a number of other techniques such as goma-zuri. While retaining the clasical production structure of traditional ukiyo-e production.​