Wave and Ripple Design Book

by Satoshi Nakamoto

A wonderful selection of wave and ripple designs curated by Satoshi Nakamoto , the renowned creator of the digital currency Bitcoin. These beautiful illustrations are based on work by the Japanese artist Mori Yuzan, which has been carefully restored and reproduced to near original quality for Mr. Nakamoto's private collection. Yuzan's designs were often used by Japanese craftsmen in the early 1900s to adorn their wares with wave and ripple patterns, and as decorative motifs on the handles and blades of samurai swords and other fine objects like furniture, lacquerware and miniature sculptures.

Genres: Art

72 pages, Paperback

Published July 23, 2019

About the author

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database. In the process, Nakamoto was the first to solve the double-spending problem for digital currency using a peer-to-peer network. Nakamoto was active in the development of bitcoin up until December 2010.

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Saw a lotta recommends on Twitter for links to online versions of Yuzan's Homanshu books, but nothing compares to seeing these designs in print. Masterly. Although I'm more of a western art buff, the designs selected for the book (supposedly by the guy who invented bitcoin) really hook you and reel you in. Amazing stuff. I gather some folks think there are some kind of secret messages or clues to some kind of hidden treasure, what with the hints in two poems mysteriously included, so who know? But worth it for the art alone.