Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style (Denshin gafu Hokusai gashiki)
Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit is a Japanese woodblock picture album by Katsushika Hokusai, published in 1819 in Edo, intended as a model book for students of his drawing style. The pages show monochrome ink scenes of figures in woodland, farmers carrying loads across fields, a man climbing a gnarled tree, and cranes, plum blossoms and birds on rocky shorelines. A designer could take the economical, looping line work and the way dense foliage and rough bark are rendered with simple hatched strokes.
