Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)
Hokusai Manga sketchbook volume printed in Edo, Japan, in 1848 by the publisher Kadomaruya Jinsuke, made by Katsushika Hokusai as a sketchbook of figures, animals, and objects for artists and general readers. The pictures are monochrome woodblock double-page spreads of small, loose, quickly drawn figures with minimal shading, showing how a designer can reduce a subject to a few confident contour lines and gestures.
