Escher invoking Hokusai in his sixties<p>"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."<p><a href="https://escherinhetpaleis.nl/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprdzoomst01.blob.core.windows.net%2Fescher-production-silverstripe-assets-public%2FUploads%2FImageBlock%2Fde-tweede-scheppingsdag_cat105-1.jpg&w=3840&q=75" rel="nofollow">https://escherinhetpaleis.nl/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fp...</a>
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.<p>北斎模様画譜 (1884) - Hokusai Pattern Book - <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANDL854627_%E5%8C%97%E6%96%8E%E6%A8%A1%E6%A7%98%E7%94%BB%E8%AD%9C.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANDL85...</a>
Is there a way for non-Japanese speakers to experience this?
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:<p><a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1973-0723-0-57" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1973-0723-...</a><p>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.
There is a i18n “English” button on top right. Unless you meant something else.
I used google translate.
See also:<p><a href="https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/imagebank/theme/hokusaimoyo" rel="nofollow">https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/imagebank/theme/hokusaimoyo</a><p>Hokusai Moyo Gafu: an album of dyeing patterns (ndl.go.jp)
170 points by fanf2 10 months ago <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44224992">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44224992</a>
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