Precepts for Women (Ehon Onna imagawa 絵本女今川)
An 1820 illustrated book of Japanese woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a picture book of moral instruction aimed at women and girls. Its pages show women in domestic and garden settings, drawn in flat outline with soft green, teal and muted ochre colour blocks. A designer might borrow its economical colour palette, pattern-rich kimono textures, and the way figures sit within open architectural frames and rustic landscape edges.
