Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, jūgohen 伝神開手北斎漫画十五編) : [volume 15]

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1878 · [Bishū (Nagoya): Eirakuya Tōshirō], Tōhekidō, [尾州(名古屋): 永楽屋東四郎], 東壁堂 · 26 pictures

This is a volume of Hokusai Manga sketchbooks, published in 1878 by Eirakuya Tōshirō in Nagoya and Tōhekidō, and produced for a general Japanese readership. Its double-page spreads are woodblock-printed monochrome sketches of everyday figures, animals, plants and scenes, with a few places and dates in the margins. A designer could take from them the economy of quick outline, the way a figure is built from a few gestural strokes, and the compact arrangement of several small framed vignettes on one page.

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849

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