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, published in Nagoya in 1848 by Eirakuya Tōshirō, collecting his manga studies of figures in motion for a general audience of artists and print buyers. The pages show spear-and-staff fighters, falling and leaping men, and crouched figures drawn in quick, loose ink lines with light grey wash, a useful model for designers wanting energetic gesture, dynamic cropping of action, and economical figure drawing.
