Mountain Teahouse, from The Mist of of Sandara (Kyōka Sandara-kasumi)
A late eighteenth-century Japanese woodblock print from a comic kyōka poetry book, made by Katsushika Hokusai in 1798 for a readership of urban poetry enthusiasts. The picture shows women serving tea on a raised wooden veranda beside a mountain landscape, with figures in colour-washed robes and a folding screen. A designer might take its flat planes of muted colour, its tight cropping of interior and exterior space, and its loose, economical outline drawing.
