北斎
A 1926 Japanese monograph on the painter Katsushika Hokusai, written by Oda Kazuma and published by Ars in Tokyo, offering reproductions of his work for art readers. The pictures are black-and-white photographic reproductions of ink paintings and woodblock-style prints: a misty mountain landscape with a boat and calligraphic inscriptions, a dark rocky cliff with a waterfall-like stream, a figure in a boat on wave-tossed water, and a shadowy group with a lantern, with strong diagonal compositions and dense brush-and-ink texture that a designer could draw on for tonal contrast and dynamic cropping.
