Perfect Pictures at a Glance (Shūga ichiran)
Perfect Pictures at a Glance is a Japanese woodblock picture book by Katsushika Hokusai, printed in 1818 for a general audience of readers and collectors. Its pages are split into small framed scenes of landscapes, figures, animals and folk subjects, drawn in clean ink lines with light colour washes. A designer could take from them the compact panel layouts and the economical, expressive contour line used to suggest motion and character.
