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Transmitting the Spirit and Revealing the Form of Things

Artist Katsushika Hokusai Japanese, 1760 - 1849

Date1814-1878

MediumInk on paper

DimensionsLeaves: 8 1/4 x 11 11/16 inches (21.01 x 29.69 cm)

ClassificationsIllustration

Credit LineCollection of the Princeton University

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Object numberJ_2019-09.16

DescriptionWhen we hear the word “manga” today, we think of graphic novels: stories that are dramatically narrated through pictures, often in a comic book-like format. The literal meaning of the term manga (漫画) in Japanese, however, is “curious” or “whimsical drawings,” and this was the 19th century understanding of the word when Hokusai’s first volume of drawings, commonly known as Hokusai manga, was published in 1814.

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