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Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1848 · Nagoya: Eirakuya Tōshirō永楽屋東四郎 · 24 pictures

A Hokusai sketchbook published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Tōshirō in 1848, drawn for a popular audience of artists and craftsmen learning to render figures. The pages are woodblock-printed double spreads of quick studies of men in motion, some with spears, rifles and tents, others crouched or tumbling.

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849

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