An Illustrated New Edition of Suikoden (The Water Margin) (Shinpen suiko gaden 新編水滸画伝)
An illustrated Japanese woodblock edition of the Chinese novel Suikoden (The Water Margin), made by Katsushika Hokusai and published in Edo in 1805 for a popular readership. The pictures are ink line-drawn woodblock prints of outdoor and interior scenes, with gardens, pavilions, bridges and figures in robes, mostly on facing spreads. A designer might take from them the dense, economical linework and the way crowded architecture and foliage are rendered in fine parallel strokes.
