An Illustrated New Edition of Suikoden (The Water Margin) (Shinpen suiko gaden 新編水滸画伝)
An illustrated Japanese woodblock-printed book, the Shinpen suiko gaden, issued in Edo in 1805 by the publisher Kobayashi Shinbei and illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai for a popular readership. Its pictures are ink-line woodcut scenes of warriors, fights, and tense encounters set in houses, courtyards, pine groves and along rivers, with dense columns of Japanese text facing the plates, offering a designer clean linear compositions with strong diagonal action and framed panel layouts.
