Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)
Hokusai Manga sketchbook volumes printed in Edo in 1848 by Kadomaruya Jinsuke and partners, issued for artists and craftsmen as a model book of woodblock drawings. The pages show open double spreads of monochrome line drawings: a street scene with workers and a cart, bare branches and reeds, household objects and plants, rocky crags, and a set of guardian figures in armour. A designer can take from them the economy of contour line, the way small figures are grouped into scenes, and a reference catalogue of natural and everyday motifs.
