Wave and ripple

October 12, 2018 12:09 PM

A Meji-era design book of waves and ripple designs is now available for download. The three book series, titled Hamonshū, was created by artist Mori Yuzan. Direct link
posted by PussKillian (9 comments total)

Originally unearthed by the wonderful Public Domain Review (many more treasures here and here), which for some reason is not credited.
posted by theodolite at 12:19 PM on October 12, 2018 [5 favorites]

Mmmmmm. There's a double-page of steep waves in open ocean that makes me slightly seasick to look at. Wow.
posted by clew at 12:37 PM on October 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

These are great!

Hokusai is mostly known as an ukiyo-e artist, for good reason, but he also produced pattern books similar to this one. His museum in Ryogoku has a few examples of both the books and, IIRC, kimonos made with his patterns.
posted by tobascodagama at 12:41 PM on October 12, 2018 [2 favorites]

Not finding this one at AbeBooks, pls help.
posted by rhizome at 1:07 PM on October 12, 2018

Very nice!
posted by OmieWise at 1:58 PM on October 12, 2018

I'll expect to start seeing these in tattoos within the year.

But joking aside, they are legitimately beautiful and it's neat to see obscure art be rediscovered.
posted by Dip Flash at 8:08 PM on October 12, 2018

I saw this is the Public Domain Review last week and I've already got some blue wave buttons in the works!
posted by maggiemaggie at 9:31 PM on October 12, 2018 [1 favorite]

Lovely! Thank you for posting this, PussKillian!

Direct link above leads to vol. 2 only. Here's the link for the archive.org author page with links to all three volumes:

880-01 Mori, Yūzan, -1917
posted by tenderly at 10:45 PM on October 12, 2018 [2 favorites]

Is there any more information on these? I'm curious about the fore-edge printing, too.
posted by rhizome at 12:04 AM on October 13, 2018