Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style (Denshin gafu Hokusai gashiki)
Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit is a Japanese woodblock drawing manual by Katsushika Hokusai, published in 1819 for artists and students learning his style. The four-panel spreads show ink sketches of landscapes, bearded Daoist sages, mythic beasts, laughing figures, and court-costumed nobles in simple line. A designer can take loose, economical contour lines and a clean use of white space that suggests form with very few strokes.
