Old Manji’s Cursive Picture Album (Manji-ō sōhitsu gafu)
Old Manji's Cursive Picture Album is a Japanese woodblock sketchbook by Katsushika Hokusai, published in 1843 for a general audience of artists and collectors. Its double-page spreads show quick ink studies of people, animals, plants and objects, each captioned in Japanese. A designer could take from them the economy of single-line brushwork, with bold silhouettes, loose hatching and a lot of empty paper around the figures.
