An Illustrated New Edition of Suikoden (The Water Margin) (Shinpen suiko gaden 新編水滸画伝)
An illustrated Japanese edition of the Chinese novel Suikoden (The Water Margin), issued in 1805 and credited to Katsushika Hokusai, a woodblock-printed book for popular readers in Edo. Its pages are double-spread ink line drawings with Japanese captions, and the scenes show crowds of armed heroes in battle, mountain landscapes, and tense confrontations. A designer might take from them the dynamic energy of crowded action compositions, the economy of brush-like black line, and the way text panels sit within the picture.
