Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 1 to 15 of Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, shohen - jugohen)
A woodblock-printed sketchbook by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Tōshirō in 1848, presenting studies of figures in motion for artists and craft readers. The pages show samurai-style figures in dynamic poses: staff and spear fights, tumbling falls, and repeated sequences of the same stance drawn in rows, with clean outline strokes and sparse shading that a designer could use for action poses, figure sequences, or line-based character drawing.
