visual grammar

                                                  Shunrou (Hokusai)  [offering a pail of water] Last time, I showed that Shunrou's [offering a pail of water ]is constructed with extended circles of umbrella bones. The largest circles that make the bones of the umbrella are also used for several cohesive structures. I made the colored model from the large circle model.      Shunrou (Hokusai)  [offering a pail of water] colored large circle model        Shunrou (Hokusai)  [offering a pail of water]  The biggest circles make not only the  umbrella bones but also  the pattern of the kimono of the person on the right. The arcs of the second largest circles are effectively used in the female figure on the left.   The same technique is more effectively used in [Two wrestlers] by Sharaku. Sharak...

                          Katsushika Hokusai, Offering Pails of Water, c. 1790    I found a work by late Shunrou on Twitter: "Katsushika Hokusai, Offering Pails of Water, c. 1790" One of the characteristics of the late Shunrou period is an image that captures a moving person in an instant. The explanation of the title can be ignored because the work loses the illustrative meaning over time. The work gains universality as a formal work. We can express the motif as [2 ✕ person 十 umbrella]. This work is  made with arcs of the circles which make the bones of the umbrella. large circle-arc model I put out the great circle model of a picture with an umbrella by Sharaku at about the same time. Shunrou was making works with an umbrella motif   five years before.