Hokusai Moyo Gafu (Pattern Album by KATSUSHIKA Hokusai) | NDL Image Bank | Digital Exhibitions
The National Diet Library presents *Hokusai Moyo Gafu*, a digitized album of textile-dyeing patterns by Katsushika Hokusai. The collection showcases numerous original decorative designs created by the renowned ukiyo-e artist.
Hokusai Moyo Gafu (Pattern Album by KATSUSHIKA Hokusai) | NDL Image Bank | Digital Exhibitions
Author: National Diet Library, Japan | Published: Unknown | Generated: 2025-06-09 | Domain: ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp
Tags: ‘#Hokusai’ ‘#JapaneseArt’ ‘#TextileDesign’ ‘#PatternDesign’ ‘#DigitalArchive’
TLDR
The National Diet Library’s Image Bank digitizes Hokusai Moyo Gafu, a pattern album by Katsushika Hokusai originally published as a sourcebook for dyeing designs. Its pages preserve a range of distinctive patterns invented by Hokusai, documenting his work beyond well-known landscape and print imagery and highlighting the relationship between ukiyo-e design and textile production.
Key Takeaways
- Design sourcebook: Hokusai Moyo Gafu was published as a sample album for dyeing patterns.
- Original Hokusai motifs: The album includes many decorative patterns devised by Katsushika Hokusai.
- Digitized primary source: The NDL Image Bank provides page-level image reproductions from the historical work.
- Broader artistic context: The collection situates Hokusai’s practice within applied design and textile-oriented visual culture, not solely printmaking.
Images & Media
- Cover or featured page from Hokusai Moyo Gafu — Featured image from the digitized pattern album.
- Pattern-album page, R0000004 — Detail showing a Hokusai dyeing-pattern design.
- Pattern-album page, R0000005 — Digitized page from the pattern collection.
- Pattern-album page, R0000006 — Additional decorative motif from the album.
- Pattern-album page, R0000007 — Further example of Hokusai’s original pattern work.
Referenced Links
- NDL Image Bank — National Diet Library’s digital image exhibition and collection portal.
- Themes — Browse other themed image collections from the NDL.
- Yatsuo no tsubaki — Related Japanese design collection.
- Kodai moyo koseicho (Ancient patterns: restoration album) — Related collection of restored historic patterns.
- Hisui kacho zuan-shu (Hisui’s album of bird-and-flower designs) — Related decorative-design album.