Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)
A woodblock sketchbook published in Edo in 1848 by Kadomaruya Jinsuke, compiled from the drawings of Katsushika Hokusai for artists and craftsmen who wanted to learn how to draw. The pages are arranged as spreads of figures, animals, machinery, and mythical creatures, each sketched in fast, economical ink lines. A designer could take from them the habit of building a subject from a few confident contours, with figures shown in gesture and clusters of small studies that suggest motion and character.
