Delicate proof in an edition datable to the second half of the 19th century. Printed on Japanese paper. In perfect condition, with a small margin all around.
Bibliography
M. Forrer, Manga, Hazan Eds, 2014
J.A. Michener, Hokusai sketch books, Rutland and Tokyo, 1958
G.C. Calza, Hokusai, the old madman of painting, Exhibition Catalog Milan 1999-2000, London, 2003
M. Forrer, Hokusai, prints and drawings, London, 1991
J. Hillier, The art of Hokusai in book illustration, London, 1980
R. Lane, Hokusai, life and works, Milan, 1991
T. Clark, Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave, British Museum Press, 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/57804
British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1979-0305-0-428-1
National Museum of Asian Art: https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_FSC-GR-780.233.1-14
The Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/231633/hokusai-manga
Comment
The term “manga”, at the time, referred to “unconstrained images” and related to educational, playful, and illustrative collections. Hokusai's Manga, published starting in 1814, are an extraordinary collection of spontaneous sketches and visual notes: human figures, animals, landscapes, scenes of daily life, and decorative motifs follow one another with grace, irony, and precision.
Designed as tools for teaching and artistic practice, these volumes were used to be copied, studied, and admired. They partly anticipate modern Japanese visual culture, but with a meaning very different from what we now associate with the word “manga,” which has become synonymous with comic.
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