Our wave image is inspired by The Great Wave, a Japanese woodblock print by Hokusai (1760-1849) from a series of work entitled, Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. Hokusai Katsushika was a prolific artist and sensational character influenced by Dutch and French pastoral landscape painters. (Hokusai had discovered copies of European etchings on wrapping papers used to smuggle goods into Japan during the Shogun period, a time when western influences were forbidden). In turn, Impressionist painters of the late 1800's, Van Gogh included, were influenced by Hokusai's prints. A man of incredible energy, Hokusai produced over 3000 works of art, the most accomplished series in his seventies and eighties, moved 93 times in his life and changed his artistic name more than 30 times. He is best known for being the first to bring the human story into Japanese art.
- Refillable leather cover - 125 x 175mm (5 x 7in)
- Simple and durable leather thong closure
- Hardcover book insert - 208 unlined/blank pages - 108 x 160mm (4.25 x 6.25in)
- Lined template to help you write
- Smythe sewn binding
- Acid-free, heavy bond paper
Oberon Design's bench crafted journals are made to order in Santa Rosa, California. These refillable journals are constructed from premium, US bullhide and finished with a decorative pewter button hand cast at Oberon Design. The leather cover slides over a hard bound blank book insert with acid-free, heavy bond paper pages. The large and small journals include a lined template sheet to facilitate writing.
