Picture Book of the Pleasures of the East (Ehon azuma asobi)
Ehon azuma asobi is a Japanese woodblock picture book by Katsushika Hokusai, printed in 1802 in Edo for general readers of illustrated travel and leisure scenes. Its pages are open double spreads of fine black-line landscapes with small figures, text columns, and seal marks. A designer might take from them the economical line work, the layered receding planes of hills and water, and the compact placement of tiny figures within broad empty space.
