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 of 1848 by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Tōshirō, compiled as a volume of studies for artists and craftsmen. Its pages hold loose groups of small figures drawn in ink outline with pale colour washes, showing people at work, at play, resting, and in motion. A designer can borrow the economical gesture of these figures, their varied poses and clustered arrangements, as a model for character sketches and figure-based layouts.
