Hokusai shasin gafu
Hokusai shasin gafu is a Japanese woodblock picture book of plant and landscape studies by Katsushika Hokusai, published in 1814 in Japan, with the publisher and place unidentified and aimed at artists and sketchers copying forms. The pictures show blossoming chrysanthemums on a gnarled stem, a plum branch with pale flowers, outlined peonies with green leaves, and a snowy village beneath a mountain beside a pine, drawn with spare line and muted green and grey washes that suggest clean, economical motifs for pattern or layout work.
