Rough Sketches by Hokusai: Cursive Drawings Section (Hokusai Manga: Sōhitsu-no-bu 北斎漫画草筆之部)
A Japanese woodblock sketchbook of 1843 by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Edo by Kinkōdō Kikuya Kōzaburō for a general readership of artists and craftsmen. Its pages are loose, quick ink studies of everyday figures, plants, animals and scenes, with spare line and pale washes. A designer might take from them the economy of a single confident contour and the way a few strokes suggest weight, motion and character.
