He was an obsessive sketcher. Hokusai's Manga, a compendium of his sketches over a lifetime offer an anthropologically comprehensive observation of pre-modern J

He was an obsessive sketcher. Hokusai's Manga, a compendium of his sketches over a lifetime offer an anthropologically comprehensive observation of pre-modern Japanese life. You would be hard pressed to find as comprehensive an observation of any culture within a single body of work.