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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

Hokusai manga. Volume 15

Eirakuya Toshiro, Edo [Tokyo] 1878 (Meiji 11), 16x23,9cm, cousu.

First edition, rare, that can be translated under the title Sketch of Hokusaï, volume 15. 15 volumes have actually appeared covering the sketch work of Hokusaï. The first was published in 1815 and the last posthumously in 1878. This last posthumous volume was collected by Katano Toshiro. It contains 30 double pages with representations of people, plants and animals, mythological figures, landscapes. There are 3 colors, flesh, gray and black.
Acordon volume, connected by a seam. black blanket with wave print imitating a fabric, with title tag. Printing on mulberry paper. slightly yellowed paper. A label on the back with the name: Okusai. A lack on the lower plate revealing the cardboard. Beautiful copy in excellent condition.
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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