Edo prints
| Design: | Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | |||||
| Title: | Santei gafu: Manual of drawing in three styles | |||||
| Size: | 23.8 x 16.0 cm | |||||
| Posthumous printing from the original woodblocks | ||||||
| Photography: | Jacques Commandeur |
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Originally released in 1816 by publishers Eirakuya Tōshirō in Nagoya and Kadomaruya Jinsuke in Edo. This reprint from the original blocks was issued in 2008 by publisher Unsōdō in Kyoto as part of a five volume set called “A collection of Hokusai drawing manuals” (北斎絵手本集成, which is pronounced as Hokusai etehon shūsei).
Dark-blue book cover with title printed in light-brown on a white slip:
| Character | Reading | Meaning | Translation |
| 三 | san | three | |
| 體 | tei | style | |
| 画 | ga | drawing | Manual of drawing |
| 譜 | fu | book | in three styles |
The contents of the Santei gafu can be viewed on the website dedicated to the Gerhard Pulverer Collection here.
References
- Dalon, Laure, Nagata, Seiji, Negishi, Mika, Takemura, Makoto, Okuda, Atsuko (2014). Hokusai. Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, 1er octobre 2014 - 18 janvier 2015. Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux.
- Forrer, Matthi (1985). Eirakuya Tōshirō, publisher at Nagoya. A contribution to the history of publishing in 19th century Japan. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben.
- Forrer, Matthi (2010). Hokusai. Munich: Prestel Verlag.
- Forrer, Matthi, Gulik, Willem R. van, and Kaempfer, Heinz M. (1982). Hokusai and his school: paintings, drawings and illustrated books. Leiden: Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts.
Provenance: Unsōdō