like Japanese art works,
paintings, woodblock prints, ceramics and many others, but for aspiring artists to emulate such works you had to see works by famous artists in museums or see them reprinted in books, but not any more,
in 1903, Japanese artist Mori Yuzan, about whom not a lot is known, apart from that he
hailed from Kyoto, worked in the Nihonga style, and died in 1917,
his wave designs were published in a resource guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to add aquatic motifs to their wares,
the three-volume series, titled Hamonshū, includes variations on contained and free-form wave patterns suitable for embellishing swords, religious objects, and ceramics,
has now been digitized and is available for free on Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library of free books, movies, and software,
so for any artist,
it is now easy to look at and compare wave patterns,
as well as download them all in one place, as it happens we have mentioned this 3 volume book before in a previous post back in November 2017.
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