北斎画譜
A Japanese ehon picture book of Hokusai's designs, published in 1889 by Honma Mitsunori, a compilation of the master's sketches for artists and craftsmen. The four pictures are bold black-and-white sketches of a bird, a figure in a patterned robe, a frog or toad on a leaf, and flowers with a cricket, reduced to simple ink silhouettes with dotted shading and sparse brushed lines. A designer might borrow the economical use of solid black masses against open white ground, the stippled texture that suggests foliage and fabric, and the spare placement of small motifs like the tag and insects.
