Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)
A Japanese woodblock sketchbook by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Tōshirō in 1848 for general readers and artists. The pages are paired double spreads of landscapes, rocks, trees, distant mountains and small figures drawn in fine, economical ink lines with open white space. A designer could take from them a method of suggesting distance and atmosphere with sparse contour lines and generous empty ground.
