Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Kuniyoshi began his career illustrating multi-volume novels known as gōkan 合巻. Images played a prominent role on each page of these books, animating the surrounding text. While the illustrations in the books were monochrome, the cover designs were multicolored. Hokusai and Kuniyoshi jointly designed this cover depicting a woman’s face alongside a basket of fish and flowers—images that provide little information about the contents of the novel. 

Much of the design of this book cover should most likely be attributed to Hokusai. Kuniyoshi was probably responsible for the figure on the left, based upon the placement of his signature above her.