Hokusai gafu
Hokusai gafu is a Japanese illustrated sketchbook by Katsushika Hokusai, published by Eirakuya Tōshirō in Nagoya in 1849 for artists and craftsmen. Its pages are open double spreads of monochrome ink line with occasional soft colour, showing figures, animals, and rural and snowy scenes. A designer could take from them the economical contour line, the simplified silhouettes of people and creatures, and the way a few strokes suggest grass, snow, or a tree.
