HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA, Manga n. 98, 1834 vasi tasked with transporting official documents

tasked with transporting official documents along the Tōkaidō road between Edo and Kyoto

by now synonymous with comic books

the term “manga” meant “unrestricted images” and referred to collections of educational

Watanabe of Tokyo

refined symbolic picture

HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA, Manga n. 98, 1834 vasi tasked with transporting official documentsNishiki e, a color woodblock print in two shades of gray and one shade of pink (image and sheet size approximately 18 x 25 cm). A delicate impression from an edition datable to around 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 Man Mad About