Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)
A Hokusai sketchbook of 1848 published in Aichi by Katano Tōshirō, collecting his manga studies of everyday figures, animals, plants and objects for a sketching readership. The spreads show quick ink figure drawings in mixed scales, from fishermen and travellers to lotus leaves, fish and folk-tale characters, set in loose framed panels on aged paper; a designer might borrow their economical line, the gesture of vignetted groupings and the way single motifs sit within open space.
