Various Pictures by Hokusai (Hokusai soga)
Hokusai soga is a Japanese woodblock sketchbook by Katsushika Hokusai, published in 1820 in Edo for popular readers and artists copying his drawings. Its double-page spreads show everyday scenes of fishing, farming, market stalls, travellers and labourers in quick, economical black ink line. A designer could take from them the loose, gestural linework and the way small figures are placed in open landscape with plenty of empty paper.
