(Transmitted from the Gods) Hokusai Sketches (Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga), vol.14

Date:: c.1849
Medium:: Print
Source:: Victoria and Albert Museum

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(Transmitted from the Gods) Hokusai Sketches (Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga), volume 14, is an illustrated woodblock-printed book in the Hokusai manga series, published in 1849 and now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The manga project ran across fifteen volumes between 1814 and the early 1880s, and volume 14 appeared in the year of Katsushika Hokusai's death, making it one of the last book projects associated with his lifetime.

(Transmitted from the Gods) Hokusai Sketches (Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga), vol.14

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