How to Draw Japan

About this book

> 100 SUBJECTS. 6 STEPS EACH. 600 STEP-BY-STEP DRAWINGS. THE ANCHORS NEVER MOVE — THE OBJECT BUILDS ITSELF. > > A fountain pen. A kyusu teapot with its sideways handle. A bamboo broom by the door. An ink stone with a hill and a sea. A soroban abacus, a tailor's shears, a furoshiki knot, a watering can waiting in the garden. > > Rooms and shops fail without props — and Japanese everyday objects have shapes the rest of the world does not. This book fixes that the honest way: one fixed blueprint — centre line, ground line, top point and half-width locked from Step 1 to Step 6 — while every object is built from ten master body shapes (vessel, bottle, box, cylinder, round, flat, dome, long, ring, fan), its structure, the feature that gives it its name (handle, lid, spout, bristles, blade, dial), and its detail. Nothing moves between steps — so the object you start is the object you finish. > > Inside: 20 stationery & desk tools · 20 kitchen tools · 20 cleaning & laundry tools · 20 sewing & craft tools · 20 garden tools, letters & everyday carry. Every subject is named in English, Japanese and romaji — this book is also a walk through the words of a Japanese house. > > And after every subject: a practice page. Trace the faint design, then draw your own version in the empty frame. 100 subjects, 100 practice pages. > > Every object in this book is a generic design — no real brands, no logos, no packaging — so every tool you invent with this system is completely yours. All you need is a pencil and an eraser.