Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 4 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, yonhen 傳神開手 北斎漫画四編)
A Japanese woodblock sketchbook of 1816 by Katsushika Hokusai, published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Tōshirō as a manga volume for artists and general readers who wanted models of drawing. The pages show ink-line landscapes, rocky islands, pagodas and figures in cloud-filled scenes, with loose wash-like shading. A designer can borrow the economical contour line, the way mist and cloud are left as bare paper, and the compact groupings of rocks, trees and architecture.
