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Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1780 · 18 pictures

Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga is a Japanese sketchbook of figure studies by Katsushika Hokusai, issued in Edo in the late eighteenth century as a manual for artists. Its double-page spreads show men in motion, mounted riders, and craftsmen at work, drawn in quick ink line with light grey wash, offering a designer studies of gesture, pose, and figures cropped at the page edge.

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