Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 8 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, happen 傳神開手 北斎漫画八編)
A Japanese woodblock sketchbook by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya in 1817 by Eirakuya Tōshirō as the eighth volume of his Hokusai manga series. The pages are loose ink studies of figures, animals, plants and landscape, with some annotated with Japanese kana labels. A designer might draw on their economical outline line, the scattered arrangement of figures across a page, and the quick notation of posture and clothing.
