Hokusai manga. Nihen, yonhen, gohen, shichihen, kyuhen, junihen
Hokusai manga is a Japanese sketchbook of woodblock-printed pages by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), issued in multiple volumes for artists and general readers. The pages show loose studies of everyday life, nature and people, drawn in clean ink lines with occasional colour wash. A designer could take its economical linework, varied figure poses and quick sketch-like arrangement of many small motifs on a single page.
