Various Pictures by Hokusai (Hokusai soga 北斎麁画)
A Japanese woodblock picture book of miscellaneous sketches by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya in 1820 by the Eirakuya bookshop for a general popular readership. The double-page spreads show crowds of townspeople and children at a garden gathering, travellers on a moonlit plain, washerwomen and boatmen at a riverbank, and workers pounding rice and cutting wood indoors. A designer could draw on their loose, economical ink line and the lively group poses that carry narrative in few strokes.
