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Examples of Hokusai's Drawing (Hokusai gashiki 北斎画式)

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1818 · 20 pictures

Hokusai's Examples of Hokusai's Drawing is a Japanese woodblock picture book issued in 1818 by Katsushika Hokusai, a Edo-period artist, as a manual of drawing for amateur students. The pictures show figures, landscapes and fantastic creatures rendered in clean black outline with little shading, presenting how a designer might build a scene from simple strokes, pine-lined hills, waterside houses, and spirited poses.

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849

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