Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, gohen 伝神開手北斎漫画五編) : [volume 5]

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849 · 1816 · Edo : Kadomaruya Jinsuke, 角丸屋甚助 · 21 pictures

This is a Japanese woodblock-printed sketchbook, the fifth volume of Hokusai's Manga series, made by Katsushika Hokusai and published in Edo in 1816 by Kadomaruya Jinsuke for a general readership of artists and craftsmen. The facing pages show quick ink studies of figures, monks, temple architecture and gestures, drawn in loose outline with light grey wash. A designer might take from them the economy of a few confident lines that convey posture, movement and character.

Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849

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