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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

Hokusai Manga. Guerriers

Hanabusaya Heikichi, Edo [Tokyo] 1849 (S.d), 15,9x22,5cm, cousu.

Rare edition, which can be translated as Hokusai's Sketches, Warriors. The volume contains 50 illustrated leaves, some on double-page in black, grey and flesh. It is essential to add that it is impossible to determine whether this is the first or a later print run, because in this respect there was no difference for the Japanese, and the publisher reprinted volumes as needed, the notion of a first print run being irrelevant to Japanese books. We do know, however, that the publisher produced print runs of this book between 1849 and 1878. This volume is not one of the 15 volumes of Hokusai's Mangas, and we have not been able to determine whether it is an isolated volume devoted to the art of war or part of a series whose origin we have not been able to find.
Accordion-fold volume, bound by a seam. Green cover with title label. Corner loss on first leaf pastedown on first board.  A good copy.
Hokusai manga deal with a variety of subjects, from scenes of everyday life to war scenes, as well as scenes of typically Japanese legends, animals and flowers. ‘It is generally considered that, after a period of intense production, Hokusai selected his sketches very carefully, and even redrew a number of them, arranging them in the order we know today. However, Michener maintains that the layout of the various sketches on a given plate was actually decided by the engravers and publishers, and not by Hokusai himself.'.

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