Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)
A Japanese woodblock sketchbook of 1848 by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Toshiro, offering general readers studies of people and figures. Its pages show dense, quick ink studies of figures in varied poses: sages and Buddhist monks seated in groups, wandering entertainers, workers, and figures from legend. Designers can borrow the economical line, the clustering of small figures across a page, and the way gesture alone carries character.
