Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 2 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, nihen 傳神開手 北斎漫画二編)
A Japanese woodblock sketchbook of 1815, the second volume of Hokusai's Manga series, published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Tōshirō for a general audience of artists and craftsmen. Its double-page spreads show figures, Buddhist arhats, landscapes, birds and boats in quick monochrome line with light wash, offering a designer loose, economical studies of gesture, crowd grouping and simplified scenery.
