Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 5 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, gohen 傳神開手 北斎漫画五編)
Volume 5 of Hokusai's Hokusai manga, a Japanese woodblock sketchbook of figures, landscapes and everyday scenes, made by Katsushika Hokusai and published in Nagoya in 1816 for artists and general readers. The pages show robed figures, sages, mountain scenes and bustling interiors drawn in quick ink lines with light grey wash, offering a designer examples of economical contour drawing and how a few strokes can suggest posture, clothing and setting.
