Ryoji Kumata (Ryoji Chomei) was the editor and publisher of Han geijutsu. He lived near a paper-recycling factory and was able to provide the inexpensive stock on which he printed his magazine for four years. To reach an audience much larger than that of most sosaku hanga publications, the majority of prints published in Han geijutsu were not printed by the artists themselves, but were printed on commercial presses from the original woodblocks.

Many issues were devoted to special subjects or to the work of individual artists. Several issues are composed entirely of New Year's cards (the December 1, 1932 issue has 100 designs by various artists) and book plates, small works that gave professional artists an income and amateur artists an opportunity to create works on a manageable scale. As government censorship of artistic subject matter grew during the 1930s, sosaku hanga artists dedicated issues to folktoys and ema (paintings on wood, often of horses or birds, given as gifts at Shinto shrines) and thus promoted the values of traditional community life. Issues devoted solely to the works of individual artists are by Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Munakata Shiko, Onchi Koshiro, Kawanishi Hide, Kobayashi Asaji, Ryoji Chomei (Ryoji Kumata) and others. In addition to prints, Ryoji solicited articles and critiques on literature and art, as well as verse and fable, to reflect his view of art as a nurturing, inclusive discipline.