Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things, Volume 11 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, jūichihen 傳神開手 北斎漫画十一編)
This Japanese woodblock sketchbook, volume 11 of Hokusai's Manga series, was drawn by Katsushika Hokusai and published in Nagoya by Eirakuya Tōshirō, aimed at artists and general readers of the early nineteenth century. Its pages are loose ink studies of everyday figures, sumo wrestlers, animals, and mythical beasts, drawn with quick contour lines and small captions, offering designers a source for gesture, posture, and compact figure groupings.
