Illustrated "Anthology of Tang-Dynasty Poems" in Five-Syllable Lines (Tōshisen ehon gogon ritsu hairitsu 画本唐詩選五言律排律)
This Edo-period Japanese woodblock picture book, issued in 1836 by the publisher Kobayashi Shinbei, pairs Hokusai's illustrations with Chinese Tang-dynasty poems for a general readership. The three pictures show a pack horse carrying bundles on a rocky mountain path with a traveller, a riverside pavilion beside a lake with a conical mountain behind, and a close study of a camel with its handler. Designers can take from them the economy of ink line, the hatched rock and foliage textures, and the open white space around single figures and animals.
