Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 3 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, sanpen 傳神開手 北斎漫画三編)
A Japanese woodblock sketchbook by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya in 1815 by Eirakuya Tōshirō as the third volume of his Hokusai manga series, aimed at artists and students of drawing. The double-page spreads show ink-line figure studies of Chinese sages, immortals, and folk characters, with small captions beside each, plus scenes of a bustling workshop and a ghostly apparition. A designer can take from them a dense, economical line style, with figures set at varied angles and scattered across the page without a background.
