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 for artists and students learning his drawing style. Its paired double-page spreads show landscapes, figures and legendary scenes in loose, economical ink lines. Designers can take from it the spare contour drawing, the wave and rock patterning, and the way a few strokes suggest foliage, water and billowing hair.
