Hokusai and Tesselations

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1899550/1/11/

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srean•2h ago

Escher invoking Hokusai in his sixties

"Ideally I would spend a whole year on a freighter watching the waves. If God himself, in honour of my 60th birthday, would give me the strength and the power and the glory, now and forever, to draw a beautiful wave. But no, nothing like that. As soon as I got home I tried it, to no avail. I started spirals instead. That at least gave me something to go on. Drawing waves—those apparently shapeless, chaotic glories—is something I will have to leave to you and your (almost ex-)compatriots."

https://escherinhetpaleis.nl/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fp...

p1anecrazy•1h ago

Is there a way for non-Japanese speakers to experience this?

srean•1h ago

I used google translate.

omoikane•1h ago

It's mostly pictures and not much text, except for the initial popup you see which is the usual cookie consent prompt (left button = minimum required, right button = agree to all). But looks like British Museum also has this book if you want an English interface:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1973-0723-...

If you are asking about the text written on the pages themselves, it takes a bit more effort unless you are familiar with archaic script. I can make out some of them as guidelines on how to draw the patterns.

srik•21m ago

There is a i18n “English” button on top right. Unless you meant something else.

lioeters•40m ago

Found a copy of the book on Wikimedia. It was originaly published as a pattern book for kimono textile, then rediscovered in 1986 in a collection at the Boston Museum. Since then art historians in Japan found further prints.

北斎模様画譜 (1884) - Hokusai Pattern Book - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%253ANDL...

srean•39m ago

Could you check the URL ? I think something broke during the copy and paste

masfuerte•27m ago

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:NDL8546...

pentaphobe•27m ago

This seems to work

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANDL85...

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