The Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画, "Hokusai's Sketches") is a collection of sketches of various subjects by the Japanese artist Hokusai. Subjects of the sketches include landscapes, flora and fauna, everyday life and the supernatural.
The Manga evidence a dedication to artistic realism in portrayal of
people and the natural world. The work was an immediate success, and the
subsequent volumes soon followed.
The word manga in the title does not refer to the contemporary story-telling manga, as the sketches in the work are not connected to each other.
Block-printed
in three colours (black, gray and pale flesh), the Manga comprise
literally thousands of images in 15 volumes, the first published in
1814, when the artist was 55. The final three volumes were published
posthumously, two of them assembled by their publisher from previously
unpublished material. The final volume was made up of previously
published works, some not even by Hokusai, and is not considered
authentic by art historians.
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