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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

Hokusai manga. Volume 14

Eirakuya Toshiro, Edo [Tokyo] 1849, 16x23,9cm, cousu.

First edition, rare, that can be translated under the title Sketch of Hokusai, volume 14. 15 volumes have actually appeared covering the work of Hokusai. The first was published in 1815 and the last posthumously in 1878. The final volume is considered apocryphal by some art historians. the Volume on 30 double sheets contains about 39 engravings of which 12 on double page, there are several animated landscapes, real and mythological animals. There are 3 colors, flesh, gray and black.
Acordon volume, connected by a seam. brown blanket with wave print imitating a fabric, with title tag. A trace of wetness on the flat bottom flats. Friction. Loose seams, a flying thread. Interior very fresh and clean. The volume was not printed on paper murier like most copies that we meet but on a Japanese paper thin and shiny. Nice copy.
The hokusai manga deals with various subjects, scenes of daily life, but also war scenes, also scenes of typically Japanese legends, animals and flowers. "It is generally considered that, after a contemporary of intense production, Hokusai selected his sketches very carefully, and even redrawed a number of them, arranging them in the order we know them today. on page of different sketches on a given board was actually decided by the engravers and editors, not by Hokusai himself. " Wikipedia. It will be recalled that the technique of Japanese printmaking is very close to the original drawing, since the drawing was inked on a piece of wood that the engraver was digging, following precisely the lines of the drawing, itself destroyed by this surgery. These are the volumes of drawings that made the reputation of Hokusai in the West.
 

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