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 Toshiro, meant for artists and students who copied its models of the natural world and human figures. The pictures are monochrome ink landscapes and studies: rocks, pines, willows, plum branches, mountains and ghostly figures drawn with economical brushlike lines and soft grey tonal washes on facing pages, offering a designer quick reference for compositional shorthand, silhouette and the use of negative space.
