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srean

I am having a surprisingly hard time finding Hokusai's exercises on tesselations.

Has search become really this bad !

Anyway wanted to show his sketch of a bird behind chicken wire fence/cage. Similar birds here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901702

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The dead web makes things hard to find:

https://www.rawpixel.com/image/7660768/image-art-vintage-pub...

Oh nice. I had not seen this before but it fits the description very well -- birds and tiling patterns.

The art work that I had in my had a swallow or a sparrow swooping down, looked at through chicken wire grid.

The best I could find were these:

https://archive.org/details/hokusaiimayoyhi00kats/page/5/mod...

https://archive.org/details/imayoykushikisev1kats/page/19/mo...

Are you sure you're remembering right?

Here's archive's list of Hokusai books:

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Katsushika%2C+...

Thanks for the links. There are one or two in common with what I had in mind. I suppose those weren't his 'published' works but personal studies in geometry and tiling.

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