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 compiled by Katsushika Hokusai and published in Edo in 1848 by Kadomaruya Jinsuke, offering studies of figures and objects for artists and general readers. Its pages show ink line drawings of crouching and tumbling figures, stout bald men, street performers balancing on poles, and fierce guardian lions, with dense, quick contour lines and loose spacing between groups of figures that a designer could take as a model for gesture and caricature.
