How to Draw Japan

About this book

Draw the objects of the Japanese festival — not the crowds, not the scenes, the things themselves. This book teaches 100 festival objects in six unchanging steps: festival and folk masks front, back and in the mould; folding fans taken apart to their pivot and ribs and opened degree by degree; round fans from bare bamboo hoop to pasted paper; paper lanterns from spiral frame to folded-flat storage; festival decorations from blank flags to paper cranes; and the parade gear of the mikoshi and the float — roof, phoenix, doors, curtains, poles and wheels — drawn at rest, part by part. Every lesson declares its sizes and parts before a line is drawn, and ends with a practice page. No people, no hands, no stages: just the objects, at their true sizes, until you can draw them from memory.