Transmitting the Spirit and Revealing the Form of Things
Artist
Katsushika Hokusai
Japanese, 1760 - 1849
Date1814-1878
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsIllustration
DimensionsLeaves: 8 1/4 x 11 11/16 inches (21.01 x 29.69 cm)
Credit LineCollection of the Princeton University
Terms
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.On View
Not on viewLocations
- Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (1995 Broadway), Department Storage, American Art, Unit 4
1923
ca. 1636
1945-1949
1970
c. 1930