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KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

Hokusai Manga. Volume 2

Erakuya Toshiro, Tokyo 1815, 15,5x22,5cm, 30f., cousu.

first edition, rare, which can be translated under the title of Hokusai Sketch, Volume 13. 15 volumes actually published 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. Volume contains 34 subjects, mostly on dual-page black, gray and flesh. detached upper flat. fragile seams.
Volume accordion, connected by a seam. yellow ocher blanket patterned with title tag. Good copy.
The Hokusai Manga variety of subjects, scenes of daily life, but also battle scenes, also scenes of typically Japanese legends, animals and flowers. "It is generally considered that after an intense contemporary of production, Hokusai sélectionna very carefully his sketches, and even redesigned a number, arranging them in the order we know today. However, Michener claims that setting page in different sketches on a given board was actually decided by the writers and publishers, not by Hokusai himself. " Wikipedia. It will be recalled that the technique of Japanese prints is very close to the original design, since affixed drawing in ink on a piece of wood engraver digging, precisely along the lines of the drawing itself destroyed by this surgery.

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