How to Draw Figures Simply (Jinbutsu ryakugashiki) 人物略画式
Two pages from a book, open to show both pages. The pages are yellowed and aged. The left page contains 13 nude figures drawn in black, in various poses. The right page contains 11 nude figures drawn in red, in various poses. The drawings are simple line drawings. The background of the pages is off-white with some darker spots. The pages have a darker line near the top and bottom edges. The pages are on a gray background.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1795, (Kansei 7)
- Medium
- Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan
- Dimensions
- 599 × 400 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original
You May Also Like
Sheet of Sketches (recto and verso)
(From Sketchbook)
Figure Sketches, Including Pegasus and Perseus with Head of Medusa; (Rape of Persephoney?) (from Sketchbook)
Farm Workers, Most Baling Hay; Leaning Woman, Bust Length (from Sketchbook)
Sheet of Sketches (verso)
Drinking Party from Sketch Album
Inside Front Cover (from Sketchbook)
Sketchbook- The Granite Shore Hotel, Rockport, page 044 & 45: Male and Female Seated Figures
Courtiers' Farting Contest from Sketch Album
(From Sketchbook)
![Seated, Bearded Man [Falstaff?]; Lucretia [? and ?]; Three Dancing Putti (from Sketchbook)](/api/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fad%2Fweb-large%2F266433.jpg&w=1536&q=75)
Seated, Bearded Man [Falstaff?]; Lucretia [? and ?]; Three Dancing Putti (from Sketchbook)
Five Figure Studies (from Sketchbook)
Sketches of Two Women, a Man Fighting a Beast, Two Furniture Fragments (from Sketchbook)
Three Seated Men Conversing; Two Recumbent Children; Back of an Athlete; Seated Male Figure (from Sketchbook)
Sketchbook, loose sheet between pgs. 145 & 146
Sketches of Five Arms and a Head (verso)
(From Sketchbook)
Seven Figure Studies; Portrait of a Woman (from Sketchbook)
Creation of Adam; Sleeping Adam, after Michaelangelo; Other Figures; Profile of Head of Man in Helmut (from Sketchbook)
Portrait of Girl in Flower Bower, Walking Draped Female Figure, Angel, Dead Mother and Child, Three Draped Figures (from Sketchbook)
Italian Sketchbook: Figures (page 200)
Sketchbook- The Granite Shore Hotel, Rockport, page 170: Female Nude
(From Sketchbook)
Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen–jugohen) 伝神開手北斎漫画 初編-十五編
