Hokusai's Method, 9780500028773
Hardcover
Learn Hokusai’s secrets: 800 illustrations unlock drawing mastery and playful genius.

$100.55

  • Hardcover

    896 pages

  • Release Date

    2 February 2025

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Summary

Hokusai’s Lost Lessons: A Compendium of Drawing Secrets

An omnibus edition collecting 15 volumes of Hokusai’s dedicated drawing manuals, ‘e-tehon’.

Of the 300 or so printed books Hokusai created in his lifetime, a huge proportion of these were dedicated drawing manuals, known as e-tehon (drawing models). They show not only Hokusai’s great proficiency as a draughtsman, but also his wealth of ideas, and his sense of humour.

This omnibus edition collect…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780500028773
ISBN-10:050002877X
Author:Kyoko Wada, Ryoko Matsuba, Katsushika Hokusai
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:896
Release Date:2 February 2025
Weight:1.11kg
Dimensions:66mm x 216mm x 155mm
About The Author

Kyoko Wada

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.

Kyoko Wada is an art writer, critic and historian of Japanese culture.

Ryoko Matsuba is a specialist in Japanese printed culture from the Edo to modern times. She is a lecturer in Japanese Digital Arts and Humanities at the Sainsbury Institute and has been a researcher at the British Museum since 2014.

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