HOKUSAI, KATSUSHIKA: - Hokusai Manga (Sketchbook). Volume five (of fifteen). Nagoya, Eirakuya Toshiro, Meiji11 (1878).

. Lvs (30), double-folded in the Japanese fashion, as issued, in original black paper covers, title label on upper cover. Comprises fifty-six woodcut plates depicting people, architecture, scenes from daily life and traditional tales, etc. Delicately printed in grey, black and light pink. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was one of the most acclaimed Japanese artists of his time. Hokusai Manga was a series of books intended to serve as instruction manuals for the use of young artists. It became a sort of pictorial encyclopaedia of Japanese daily life and art of the time. The books became immensely popular. This is a later edition with light print, in very good condition.

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