Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)
Hokusai's Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, published in Edo in 1848 by Kadomaruya Jinsuke and partners, is a woodblock sketchbook of the artist Katsushika Hokusai aimed at amateur painters and print readers. The pictures are ink-line studies of whirling clouds, swirling mist, cliffs and trees, rural figures at work, and small sketches of birds and plants, drawn with economical contour and light tone, showing a designer how simple linework can suggest weather, terrain and motion.
